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

If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.

He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.

I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.

I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York’s broodmare.” I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. “You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn’t that sin?” His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. “I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful,” - Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville -