Anne O'Brien > Quotes

“It is important for a woman to have the duplicity to make good use of whatever gifts she might have, however valueless they might seem... You have to have the inner strength to pursue your goal, and not care how many enemies you make along the road. It is not easy.”
― Anne O'Brien, The King's Concubine

“And sometimes - to get what you want - you must be prepared to accept the apparently unacceptable.”
― Anne O'Brien, Virgin Widow

“The capacity to love does not die when the lover dies.”
― Anne O'Brien, The King's Sister

“Silence settled around us. He was asleep again, and my heart was full of sorrow that he should mourn the loss of virility so keenly and above all else. We might no longer be lovers, but we were bound together by our past that stretched over well-nigh thirteen years. Even in sleep, his fingers held mine and I knew he was pleased.”
― Anne O'Brien, The King's Concubine

“Jealousy is a terrible sine and a vicious companion: an animal that eats and claws and gives no quarter. - Pg. 167”
― Anne O'Brien, The King's Concubine

“with Sir John Paston. And his”
― Anne O'Brien, A Marriage of Fortune

“Love is soft and love is sweet, and speaks in accents fair; Love is mighty agony, and love is mighty care; Love is utmost ecstasy and love is keen to dare; Love is wretched misery. To live with, it’s despair.”
― Anne O'Brien, The Shadow Queen

“To reveal one’s emotions only opened the possibility of rejection and heartbreak. I might hide it well but my heart had been broken.”
― Anne O'Brien, A Tapestry of Treason

“exerting”
― Anne O'Brien, Marriage Under Siege

“did not fulfil the whole of the promised payment to Sir Thomas for the French lords, cousin.’ I smiled at Edward. ‘Many would think you parsimonious but we know that you were merely stretched with other expenditure. And of course you were displeased, as would any proud man be”
― Anne O'Brien, The Shadow Queen

“The years are cruel. They rob us of our health and our friends and our hopes, and give nothing back. - Pg. 146”
― Anne O'Brien, The King's Concubine

“silently against Michelle’s robust shoulder, until I learned that tears were of no value. There was no escape for us from the dank walls and rigid”
― Anne O'Brien, The Forbidden Queen

“How grief and the passage of years can leave their mark. How the burden of duty can wear away the body's resilience. - Pg. 242”
― Anne O'Brien, The King's Concubine

“eight years, were still in the”
― Anne O'Brien, The Queen’s Rival

“I felt no fear for their ultimate safety other than a bruise or scrape, rather a mild enjoyment, an excitement”
― Anne O'Brien, The Shadow Queen