When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.

I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.

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

I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.

But I don't forget and I don't forgive.