But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.

We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it

Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.

The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.