“Nobody gets to be Queen of England by being loveable. You will have to play your cards right.”

“You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition”

“In the cellar, the two young women were shrouded in darkness as if they were already in their grave.”

“Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.”

“But it was so much more. In that white blouse you wore, you looked like Grace Kelly, sharing a joke with a schnauzer, then you smiled at me and i was included, the three of us alone together. I thought, there's a woman I could die for.”

“We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.”

“No one messes me around, I don't give second chances and I never waste tears over people who aren't worth it. I save them for the people who are.”