The Boleyn Bride Quotes

“Red and white, the Tudor rose that symbolized the union between the Red Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York, blood and snow, passion and purity, fire and ice, hell and heaven, sinner and saint, conquest and surrender, whore and virgin, the red dazzle of rubies and the nacreous lustrous shimmer of pearls, innocence born from a bloody womb, the blood is the life, the cold white marble of death—a tomb effigy; red roses for the blood of martyrs.”
― Brandy Purdy, The Boleyn Bride

“Grief is one illness that defies all remedies; it must ever run its course.”
― brandy purdy, The Boleyn Bride

“color reminded him of the wholesome and pure Mistress Jane Seymour, that bland and boring little nobody who was placid as a garden pool devoid of frogs and fish and pink and white lilies to give it life and interest, who would soon be our gracious Queen.”
― Brandy Purdy, The Boleyn Bride

“I was born beautiful, with hair black as ebony, skin white as snow, eyes bewitching and dark, lips as luscious, red, and sweet as the ripest cherries, and a deceptively icy exterior with a secret sizzle hidden inside that it always delighted me to reveal to those I chose to share the secret with.”
― Brandy Purdy, The Boleyn Bride

“When King Henry told her to shut her eyes and endure as her betters had donne before her”
― Brandy Purdy, The Boleyn Bride

“Life is but a cherry fair.”
― Brandy Purdy, The Boleyn Bride

“I was ashamed to be Anne's mother”
― Brandy Purdy, The Boleyn Bride