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She's like an anchor that he has forgotten, but still it keeps him steady.
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There was a magic: and the name of it was love.
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You have to sit with your longing and know that you may not get what you want; you have to encounter the danger of longing for something without the expectation of getting your desire.
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I want my honour to be about me as a person, not me as an object with boundaries and gateways, as if I were a field - someone can touch my hand, someone can see my face, someone else can't even speak to me. If my honour is a real thing then it can't depend on whether a man sees my face, or touches my hand, or kisses my lips. If I am an honourable woman then I am an honourable woman like a man is an honourable man - whatever I wear, however ..
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A woman who loved him would have to learn obedience, and I was not yet ready to be an obedient wife.
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Then life taught me a harder lesson, beloved: it is better to forgive an enemy than destroy him.
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I would like you to have a beautiful day every day.
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We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.
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I can't sleep," he says so quietly that only I can hear. "I can't sleep. I can't sleep. I can't sleep." "Nor I." "You neither?" "No." "Truly?" "Yes." He sighs a deep sigh, as if he is relieved. "Is this love then?" "I suppose so." "I can't eat." "No." "I can't think of anything but you. I can't go on another moment like this; I can't ride out into battle like this. I am as foolish as a boy. I am mad for you, like a boy. I cannot be without ..
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Good God, what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard. It is truly amazing.
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I swear I will never trust Edward again. This is not kingly, this is not as Arthur of Camelot. This is behaviour as base as an archer's bastard and I cannot meet his eyes when I see him stuffing his mouth at King Louis' table and pocketing the gold forks.
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You are my heart. Even if you are a broken heart
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love
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He treats her as if he would spare her any fatigue, as if he has dedicated his life to her happiness.
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And all I want to hear are the sweetest words in the world, when he says: "Bed, Wife."
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You look as if you would eat me up," he says. "I would," I say. "I cannot think how to sate my desire for you. I think I will have to keep you prisoner here and eat you up in little cutlets, day after day." "If I kept you prisoner, I would devour you in one greedy swallow," he chuckles. "But you would not get out till you were with child."
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Uzela sam knjige, misleci da cu iz njih trgati po nekoliko stranica, spaljivati ih dio po dio. Prva knjiga, napisana na latinskom, rastvorila mi se u ruci. Zgrabila sam debeli snop mekih stranica. Prepustile su se mojim prstima kao da nemaju snage, kao da nisu najopasnija stvar na svijetu. okusala sam ih istrgnuti iz mekoh hrpta, ali onda sam zastala. Nisam to mogla uciniti. Nisam to zeljela uciniti. Cucnula sam s knjigom u ruci pokraj trep..
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I think nobody in the whole world knows what it is to be in love, to be so beloved.
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She smiles. "You know you can do nothing. What will be, will be. If there is a battle"--I gasp but her smile is steady--"if there is a battle, then either your husband will win, and your son will take the throne; or your brother will win and you will be sister to the king."
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When you are still and thoughtful you are as lovely as the statues they are carving in Italy.
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He greeted Anne with a roar of joy, swept her up and kissed her. You would think he had never been Sir Loyal Heart to his Queen Katherine. You would think it had been his worst enemy who had died and not a woman who had loved him faithfully for twenty-seven years and died with a blessing for him on her lips.
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I have a longing for you, Lady Elizabeth Grey, that I have never felt for any woman before. Will you come to me? I ask it not as a king, and not even as a soldier who might die in battle, but as a simple man to the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. Come to me, I beg you, come to me. It could be my last wish. Will you come to me tonight?
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The mown grass is growing again nearly to our knees; we will take a second crop of hay from this field, rich and green and starred with moon daisies, buttercups and the bright, blowsy heads of poppies.
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I cannot be your mistress," I say simply. "I would rather die than dishonor my name. I cannot bring that shame on my family." I pause. I am anxious not to be too discouraging. "Whatever I might wish in my heart," I say very softly."
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He will come to trust you, perhaps," she says. "If you have years together. You may grow to be a loving husband and wife, if you have long enough. And if I never tell you anything, then there will never be a moment where you have to lie to him. Or worse--never a moment when you have to choose where your loyalties lie. I wouldn't want you to have to choose between your father's family and your husband's. I wouldn't want you to have to choose..
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And still the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it.
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I am exhorted to be virtuous and fertile. The people see me indicated as the choice of God for Queen of England. Choirs sing as I enter the city, rose petals are showered down on me. I am myself, my own tableau: the Englishwoman from the House of Lancaster come to be the Queen of York. I am an object of peace and unity.
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His weight is on me; he is pushing me down. I turn my head away but his mouth is on my neck, my breast; I am panting with desire, and then I feel, unexpectedly, a sudden rush of anger at the realization that he is no longer embracing me but forcing me, holding me down as if I were some slut behind a haystack. He is pulling up my gown as if I were a whore; he is pushing his knee between my legs as if I have consented, and my temper makes me ..
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You will be the mother of the next King of England," she declares. "The red rose and the white, a rose without a thorn. You will have a son, and we will call him Arthur of England." She takes my hands. "This is your destiny, my daughter. I will help you."
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The queen sees me coming, turns toward us and waits, with a killer's patience, for me to reach the chancel steps.
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When he saw her, the water lapping on her scales, head down in the bath he had built especially for her, thinking that she would like to wash--not to revert to fish--he had that instant revulsion that some men feel when they understand, perhaps for the first time, that a woman is truly "other." She is not a boy though she is weak like a boy, nor a fool though he has seen her tremble with feeling like a fool. She is not a villain in her capa..
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I believe that a desire and a prayer and a spell are all the same thing, I say. When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. To let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. Sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it. And sometimes you have to find courage to k..
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This is the man who hopes to be King of England. He has to marry a princess. He's not going to marry some beggarly widow from the camp of his enemy, who stood out on the road to plead with him to restore her dowry. If he marries an Englishwoman at all, she will be one of the great ladies of the Lancaster court, probably Warwick's daughter Isabel. He's not going to marry a girl whose own father fought against him. He's more likely to marry a..
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Don't waste your courage on hating him. Keep yourself to yourself. And keep up your courage.
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She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways, but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man's world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man's drum. Do
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The scene had been a nightmare, one of those insane nightmares where the most normal objects become infinitely menacing.
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I knew when I first saw you that you were the woman I would want for all my life.
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Eyes downcast, she went past me without a glance. Dismissively her gown brushed my knees as if I should have drawn further back, out of her way, as if everyone should always step back to let Anne through. Then she was gone and as I looked up I met the Queen's eye. She looked blankly at me as I might look at a rivalry of birds fluttering in a dovecote. It was not as if it mattered. They would all be eaten in time.
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Sometimes God gives us a moment of destiny, and we have to hear the call and rise to it.
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Conviviencia--living alongside each other in harmony, whatever their beliefs. For the enemy is not another person who believes in a god. The enemy is ignorance, and people who believe in nothing and care for nothing.
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much commented on. I have three new hoods to match, which
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For a moment I felt the terror. The deep primeval terror of something one does not understand, something which is against nature or, at the least, against everything one has ever seen or known before.
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Although I am cursed by dreams, I still cannot stop myself sleeping. I drop into darkness every night and dream that Richard has come to me, laughing. He tells me that the battle went his way and we are to be married. He holds my hands as I protest that they came and told me that Henry had won, and he kisses me and calls me a fool, a little darling fool. I wake believing it to be true, and feel a sudden sick realization when I look at the w..
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But Elizabeth and I are accustomed to loss, we are Plantagenets--we dine on a diet of betrayal and heartbreak.
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Lady
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