Carolly Erickson > Quotes

“I have never treasured any woman the way I treasure you now, this moment. You are all I think of, all I want.”
― Carolly Erickson, The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette

“It's a wonder, given your prowess with these delicious women, that there aren't dozens of little Bonapartes running around. Tell me, how do you account for that?”
― Carolly Erickson, The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise

“Could it be that the great Bonaparte is incapable of fathering a child? that it is not I who am at fault but you?”
― Carolly Erickson, The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise

“Yet every time I saw Arthur my heart sank.”
― Carolly Erickson, The Spanish Queen: A Novel of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon

“What a hard thing it is to write of love! Easy enough to describe the burning brand of lust, or yearning of infatuation, that yearning that can never be assuaged. But love! There is only the word, and the knowing it.”
― Carolly Erickson

“The king swore and broke his golden walking stick over his knee when he heard this news, especially as it was rumored that the concubine miscarried after eating a surfeit of comfits made with green ginger.”
― Carolly Erickson, The Spanish Queen: A Novel of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon