112 Quotes by Sharon Kay Penman

Get some sleep. Our troubles will still be there on the morrow.

If that’s how you’d rather remember it. But I did not mean that as a reproach. I do not, in truth, think less of you for having the common sense to abandon a ship once waves began to break over the bow. Nor, after sixteen years shut away from the sun, am I likely to find tears to spare for Henry Plantagenet.

Rumors are the easiest of all crops to tend, Richard. You need only sow a few seeds about and in no time at all, you’ll reap a harvest of hatred.

Barbed banter was the coin of their realm and heartfelt admissions of affection were rejected out of hand as counterfeit.