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

by Philippa Gregory

a man will always promise more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

Nothing in the world matters more than life. You have a long road to walk and a lot of lessons to learn if you don’t know that.”

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.

it is easier to take a country into war than to bring it to live at peace, and a country at war is a bitter place to live, a risky place to have daughters, and a dangerous place to hope for a son.

in the world, I should have known. I have the Sight, I should have seen it all, but some things are too dark to foresee.

“It’s a fool who is afraid of nothing,” I say. “And a brave man is one who knows fear and rides out and faces it.

he counts his losses more than his gains.

a powerful woman will always attract slander;

“Then tell your heart to be true but your mouth to be silent.

You are the mother of nothing but girls.”

If there is love enough, then nothing—not nature, not even death itself—can come between two who love each other.