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“Sometimes it does a girl good to fall for a bit of a scoundrel, now and then.”
― Claudia Gray, Leia, Princess of Alderaan

“It was strange, to love two people so much, so differently. She didn’t quite understand it, and she wasn’t sure how to make it work.”
― E.K. Johnston, Queen's Hope

“But there’s another vision that comes increasingly these days. I see a young woman with red hair wearing a crown, and I wonder who it could be. Not my Elizabeth, surely the grandchild I’ve never seen. How can a bastard be crowned queen?”
― Alison Weir, The Grandmother's Tale

“There is no place I would rather be than Hever, and I knew that when I was eighteen and came here as a bride, riding across the drawbridge with William and seeing for the first time the fine Tudor house within the ancient walls of the castle. Even today I can still recapture that thrill whenever I see sunlight streaming through the leaded windows onto the magnificent panelling, or make my painful way through the herb garden, conjuring up the scents of long ago. Hever is a little jewel of a castle, its mellow stone walls drowsing in a leafy valley. It holds for me the echo of that distant summer, lost in time, when William and I were lovers in Sir Geoffrey’s grand bedchamber, and all around us was magic and joy.”
― Alison Weir, The Grandmother's Tale