Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

"I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?"

"Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love."

"And then the sword came down like a flash of lightning, and then her head was off her body and the long rivalry between me and the other Boleyn girl was over."

"For a moment we glared at each other, stubborn as cats on the stable wall, full of mutual resentment and something darker, the old sense between sisters that there is only really room in the world for one girl. The sense that every fight could be to the death."

"Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim."

"This is George, my beloved George. D'you think I want to go to my grave knowing that at the moment of his trial he looked around and saw no one lift a finger for him? If it is the death of me, I shall go to him."Go then," he said. "Kiss our baby good-bye before you go, and Henry. I shall tell Catherine that you left your blessing for her. And kiss me farewell. For if you go into that courtroom you will never come out alive."

"He is my brother," I said. "I cannot desert him."You can go to your own death," William said. "Or you can survive this, bring up your children, and guard Anne's little girl who will be shamed and bastardized and motherless by the end of this week. You can wait out this reign and see what comes next. See what the future holds for the Princess Elizabeth, defend our son Henry against those who will want to set him up as the king's heir or even worse-flaunt him as a pretender. You owe it to your children to protect them."

"Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight"

"He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne."

"We're going' Anne said firmly. So soon' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.'Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness."

"When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you."

"I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love."

"I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire."