Laura Andersen > Quotes

“There is less danger in fearing too much than too little”
― Laura Andersen, The Boleyn Deceit

“She had known for months now that something or someone would have to break to end this painful stalemate they were locked in. She had never guessed it would be Dominic. She had never guessed Dominic could be broken.”
― Laura Andersen, The Boleyn Deceit

“I cook better than a Stepford wife and Bobby Flay, COMBINED!”
― Laura Andersen

“Wouldn't you like to be my lord Duke of Exeter? Come on, Dom. Say something."

"You have lost your mind."

"Say something less insulting.”
― Laura Andersen, The Boleyn Deceit

“I'm here for the library. Not for men, and not for ghosts.”
― Laura Andersen, The Darkling Bride

“I want to be undone by you. I want to be the one to come to pieces in your arms, to forget there is anything in this world but the two of us.”
― Laura Andersen, The Virgin's Daughter

“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

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

“If she had to give in, at least she would do so gracefully.”
― 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

“In a fractured and fractious world, reading is an act of defiance that proclaims that understanding and tolerance are values worth fighting for.”
― Laura Andersen, The Virgin's War

“They had never spoken of all they had lost and he knew right then that their silence had been a mistake.”
― Laura Andersen, The Boleyn Reckoning

“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

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

“For that was why Jane had sought her out; to use her influence with the king. It was the only reason anyone would ever seek her out again.”
― Laura Andersen, The Boleyn Reckoning

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