“If I must die, then I will die boldly, as I have lived.”

“But how am I to live in the meantime?' I wailed.'Tis for you to decide,' he said. 'You can be her enemy and make yourself miserable by it, or you can endure it. If 'twere me, I'd choose endurance.”

“He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them for me.”

“Love overcame reason...I had rather beg my bread with him than to be the greatest queen christened.”

“In difficult times bring to mind my words and the sound of my voice. In that way, I shall always be present for you.”

“What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away.”

“I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.”