“Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.”

“You cannot do anything good for a dead man! Whatever goodness you want to do for him, do it when he is alive!”

“he who had never learned to obey cannot be a good commander”

“If you want to do his soul good, why do you continually obstruct him? It hardly makes him a better man. Do you never think that, if you had bowed to the king’s wishes years ago, if you had entered a convent and allowed him to remarry, he would never have broken with Rome? There would have been no need. Sufficient doubt was cast upon your marriage for you to retire with a good grace. You would have been honoured by all. But now the titles you cling to are empty. Henry was a good son of Rome. You drove him to this extremity. You, not he, split Christendom. And I expect that you know that, and that you think about it in the silence of the night.”

“I asked him what it was like to have a dad. He said he didn't think it mattered who you had as long as you had somebody good.”

“Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!”