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.
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.
I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
Do you not think that God will protect us?” “No,” he said flatly. “My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious.
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.
When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.
We're going' Anne said firmly. So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.' Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness.
He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.
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.
The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.
If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
I like writing historical fiction.
When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.
The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of Sussex. I realised that history would answer all the questions I had spent my life asking. It was an extraordinary moment.
Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.
