We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

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?

Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.

For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.

Good Evening , Sir John. I hope that you will accept a little gift from me.' I should be honored, Your Majesty.' I want to give you a little carved stool from my privy chambers. A pretty little piece from France. I hope you will like it.' I should be grateful.' It is for your daughter. For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine.

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

Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.