81 Quotes by Alison Weir

In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...

Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.

If silences could be pregnant, then this one went to full term.

An objective viewpoint was beyond her; she was single-minded to a fault.

I cannot go with you all the way on your journey, but I would go as far as I might

The formal education of women was rarely considered important. Girls of good birth were taught domestic skills at home or in a convent, and rarely learned to read and write, for it was feared that if they did they would waste their talents writing love letters or reading romances that led to promiscuity.

I steel myself to ignore his taunts and his coarse language. I no longer care what he says or does. It doesn't matter anymore. I am detached, contained in my own private world where he cannot reach me. It is my last refuge.

But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?

I waste so much time sleeping. And time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.