Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.

I have given my word that only death will take me from you.

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

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

I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.