But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.
Philippa GregoryAnd โ I think you know, donโt you? โ that I love you, Anne.โ I feel as if I have been living in a loveless world for too long. The last tender face I saw was my fatherโs when he sailed for England. โYou do? Truly?โ โI do.โ He rises to his feet and pulls me up to stand beside him. My chin comes to his shoulder, we are both dainty, long-limbed, coltish: well-matched. I turn my face into his jacket. โWill you marry me?โ he whispers. โYes,โ I say.
Philippa GregoryDaniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the word. And now that I am a woman grown, I know that I love you and I want this son of yours, and our children who will come. I have seen a woman break her heart for love: my Queen Mary. I have seen another break her soul to avoid it: my Princess Elizabeth. I don't want to be Mary or Elizabeth, I want to be me: Hannah Verde Carpenter." "And we shall live somewhere that we can follow our belifs without danger," he insisted. "Yes," I said, "in the England that Elizabeth will make.
Philippa Gregory