When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

One never gets the same summer twice.

I turn around from the window and for the first time I see him... It is Richard, smiling at my surprise. I run to him, without thinking what I am doing. I run to the first friendly face that I have seen since Christmas, and in a moment I am in his arms and he is holding me tightly and kissing my face, my closed eyes, my smiling mouth, kissing me till I am breathless and have to pull away from him.

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?