Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.

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

... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

In Spain," indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.

The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.