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“I die a Queen, but I would rather die the wife of Culpepper”
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“I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?”
― The Other Boleyn Girl
― The Other Boleyn Girl
“I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate.
I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned,
Since from myself another self I turned.
My care is like my shadow in the sun,
Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it,
Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.”
― Her Life in Letters
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate.
I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned,
Since from myself another self I turned.
My care is like my shadow in the sun,
Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it,
Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.”
― Her Life in Letters
“I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?”
― The Other Boleyn Girl
― The Other Boleyn Girl
“In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine...”
― Witch Child
― Witch Child
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