The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)

by Philippa Gregory

whatever language tells it, whatever tune it sings, is that a man will always promise more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

I am a woman who makes things happen, and I am not defeated yet. I am not defeated by a boy with a newly won crown, and no man will ever walk away from me certain that he won’t walk back.