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"...for she is sick to the teeth of tempering her words, of edging around the truth, in her gentle tread, around his mercurial moods; she hardly even recognizes herself anymore. She will be a lioness in Elizabeth's defense. She has been a lioness in protecting her children's interests, before ever they were born."
Nowe Thus, Chapter 40: lioness.
"...for she is sick to the teeth of tempering her words, of edging around the truth, in her gentle tread, around his mercurial moods; she hardly even recognizes herself anymore. She will be a lioness in Elizabeth's defense. She has been a lioness in protecting her children's interests, before ever they were born." Nowe Thus, Chapter 40: lioness.
"The solutions she presents him with for this unfortunate development leave him impressed; a strong reminder that cruelty borne of cleverness was far sharper than any other." Nowe Thus, Chapter 41: indignity.
“The figure had leapt, like a flame, and floated, like Greek fire over water, to the ramparts. Once there, the figure fluttered against them, like a moth against the glass of a lit lantern, until she settled there, like the figurehead on the prow of a ship.”
Nowe Thus, Chapter 42: sting.
For once, she had not spared a thought for her family, not since his accusation took flight, for once, she had forgotten those invisible ties which drag their ghosts behind, every garden gate, every corridor and every secret meeting, but all at once she recalls them as her folly in speaking truth— not just, speaking, but shouting such, angrily, in a form raw and untempered—to a prince catches up to her, driven home by the devastation of his expression, starker than she has ever found it.
"And you named her 'the Princess' to my husband, when you did? As you just did, to us?"
Nowe Thus, Chapter 44: bond.
“Among significant personages living of England, there have only remained four that have never sought his favour: the Princess Dowager of Wales, the Duke of Suffolk, Master Cromwell, and the Lady Mary.
Recognizing another of high pride, he knows well what it has cost her to remove herself from that infinitesimal list.”
NT chapter 38: influence
“For my part, I would rather hang than serve a mistress that leads me into such peril…then, and now.”
NT chapter 39: champions
