I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, I can’t do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.
I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.
The truth is the last thing that matters,′ she said. ‘And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.
Stars in the night,′ he said. ‘Something something something something, some delight.
I am not a yard of ribbon. I am not a leg of ham. I am not for sale to anyone.
Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.
I will learn to smile at my enemies.
What a test of love it is, when the beloved is less than perfect.
In a shipwreck, it is every drowning man for himself.
Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.
If it was not in your interests to betray me then you would have been loyal.
As my wife you cannot refuse me. I have a right to you, as your betrothed husband. From now, till your death, you will never be able to refuse me. There can be no rape between us, only my rights and your duty.
It is luck to love someone who is free to love you in return. But I don’t. I just desire him, desire him and desire him; and I wait for it to burn out. Everything I have ever gained has always turned to ashes after a little while. Why should this be any different?
The baby should always be saved in preference to the mother. That is the advice of the Holy Church, you know that. I was only reminding women of their duty. There is no need to make everything so personal, Margaret. You make everything into your own tragedy.
When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.
How should I forget them? They are around me like wasps around a honeypot.
He shrugged. “Whatever does it mean? We write poems about it all day and sing songs about it all night but if there is such a thing in real life I’m damned if I know.
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?
Fortune’s wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.