Bettina

“So let me see? What do I have? Surprise! Surprise!”
― Philippa Gregory, The Boleyn Inheritance

“Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

“A few weeks ago my uncle came over to borrow my dad's socket set and when he asked my dad how he was my dad said oh unexceptional. Living quietly with my disappointments. And how are you”
― Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

“There will be hundreds of sons making the same journey,' he says. 'All of us riding with broken hearts, all of us thinking of vengeance. This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you have always thought it; it is not like a ballad. It is a muddle and a mess, and a sinful waste, and good men have died and more will follow.”
― Philippa Gregory