Judith Arnopp > Quotes

“How things change,’ I say, ‘how strange that, even when all is lost, we can still find beauty in simple things.”
― Judith Arnopp, Peaceweaver

“They were happy times, although we did not know it then. We never know happiness until it is gone.”
― Judith Arnopp, The Kiss of the Concubine: A story of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII

“Tyrants aren't born, they evolve, just as saints do, their characters slowly shaped over time, just as ours are.”
― Judith Arnopp, The Kiss of the Concubine: A story of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII

“A sibling shares so much, sprung from the same womb, the same nursery, nursed at the same breast, taught to speak at the same knee. Siblings are each part of the other, and losing one is like severing a part of oneself.”
― Judith Arnopp, The Kiss of the Concubine: The Story of Anne Boleyn

“You stick out like a pearl in a bowl of pig swill. Land”
― Judith Arnopp, A Song of Sixpence: The Story of Elizabeth of York and Perkin Warbeck

“As we sit there, suspended in time, Jay pulls free of Ned’s grasp and comes to join me at the bedside. He settles on his haunches and, as Edmund’s soul passes, he lifts his nose to the heavens and howls his sorrow. We all feel like howling.”
― Judith Arnopp, The Beaufort Bride: The Life of Margaret Beaufort

“Recently he has negotiated with King Francis for a marriage between little Elizabeth and the one year old dauphin. Little Elizabeth should have been a queen of France – a figure of import, not a tiny unremembered corpse laid low in a marble tomb.”
― Judith Arnopp, The King's Mother: Book Three of The Beaufort Chronicle