The White Queen Quotes
He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do. A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand. But I don't forget and I don't forgive. If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy. You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn’t that sin? The law is what powerful men say it shall be. To save ___, I would plot with the devil himself. Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends. I am not a yard of ribbon. I am not a leg of ham. I am not for sale to anyone. We have to be more royal than royalty itself or nobody will believe us. This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. I am a woman who makes things happen, and I am not defeated yet. You are my beauty. You are my only love. Perhaps we will not be great people, chosen by God, but just happy. There is no one who loves peace more than a soldier. It is easier to take a country into war than to bring it to live at peace. There is nothing that sickens a country more than its own people fighting against one another. I cannot be your mistress. I would rather die than dishonor my name. I cannot bring that shame on my family. And still the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it.
