“This building fool could only be Bess of Hardwicke, a woman whose name is seldom seen in print without the word redoubtable in front of it. I wondered if anyone ever called her redoubtable to her f...”

“Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out--- Anne Boleyn was Tudor England's Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons.”

“For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other men have trod, and by myself into the depths of the wood.”

“I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?”

“My life isnt theories and formulae. Its part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and Ive absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone from my mother, from traini...”

“There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesnt perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know thats not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.”

“On the one hand maybe Ive remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.”

“As the tension between the Protestants and the Church of Rome intensified, so did the desire for a third way among dissenting groups. Soon a new group emerged, though in some senses it was also an ...”

“Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.”

“How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he h...”