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

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

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

War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.

Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.

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