The Boleyn King Quotes

“Hastings won’t you let stray too far.”
― Laura Andersen, The Boleyn King

“When I was young, I thought of eighteen as a mystical age, a time when I would know my future and myself. But I find this morning that I am sure of nothing.”
― Laura Andersen, The Boleyn King

“No one had not known Aylmer was an unrepentant Catholic—not until the night he was dragged out of William’s bedroom with a dagger in his hand.”
― Laura Andersen, The Boleyn King

“This is ours to deal with. The four of us.” “How?” Elizabeth asked, but William knew from her tone that she agreed. For all her scholarly gravity, his sister also liked to have her own way. “By doing what we each do best,” said Minuette. “Elizabeth with her correspondence and knowledge of every political faction in England; William with his ability to go anywhere and ask anything he wishes and expect an answer; Dominic with his new post in Lord Rochford’s employ and his talent to make anyone nervous enough to babble simply by staring at them.” “And what do you do best?” William teased. “Minuette is the foil,” Elizabeth said, sounding as though she were quoting. “The lighthearted, merrymaking girl who sees far more than most give her credit for.”
― Laura Andersen, The Boleyn King

“If she had to give in, at least she would do so gracefully.”
― Laura Andersen, The Boleyn King

“She is the widow of one king and mother of a second. She cannot be touched.”
― Laura Andersen, The Boleyn King

“It’s a tissue of lies wrapped in whispers.”
― Laura Andersen, The Boleyn King