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?

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

We're going' Anne said firmly. So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.' Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness.

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.

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