"'You can be quiet.' The child rounded on her with sudden angry spite. 'If I, the Princess of Wales herself, can be left in a burning campsite, then you, who are nothing but a Morisco anyway, can certainly endure it.'" Catalina, Granada, 1491, p. 4

"'You will be all in favor of the polite lie then. The great savior of a marriage is mutual ignorance." Dogmersfield Palace, p. 31

"'She's homesick,' his father said briskly. 'It's up to you to divert her. Take her to Ludlow with you. Buy her things. She's a girl like any other. Praise her beauty. Tell her jokes. Flirt with her." London, p. 65

"To make a country is the most real thing anyone can do. We will make a kingdom that we can be proud of, just as my mother and father did in Spain. We can decide how it is to be...