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  1. Jennifer Donnelly _ Fatal Throne

    I could bear it {the shame} because I knew the truth, child," I say. "There was one of us in that marriage who was old, fat, and smelly, and it wasn't me.""The King was cruel to speak thus," Alice says, but in a low voice. As if Henry, dead these past ten years, might somehow hear her."He was, yes," I say. "But I think mostly he was afraid."Alice is sceptical. "Kings are afraid of nothing," she says."This King was afraid. I know it, for I'm the one who made him so. I made a mistake, child, a grave one.""What was it?""I made my face a mirror when it should've been a mask, and what the King saw there terrified him. He hated me for it, and never, ever forgave me."{Anna of Cleves}
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  2. Jennifer Donnelly _ Fatal Throne

    Life deals the cards, but it is up to us how we play them. {Maria of Jülich-Berg, mother of Anna of Cleves}
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  3. Jennifer Donnelly _ Fatal Throne

    Up in the high palace, my mother is weeping.She storms and rages. Tears at her hair.She died thus, driven insane by war and the loss of her ancestral lands....I embrace her. "Mother, why do you rage so?""The doings of men have driven me mad. Everyone told me I must accept what I cannot change. But I wished to change what I cannot accept, and that is where the trouble starts."..."Mother, do not cry over Wilhelm," I plead, taking her cold hands in mine. "He is not worth it.""Ah, Anna," she says sorrowfully. "You think I'm crying because I had such a foolish son and everyone knew it. But I'm not. I'm crying because I had such a clever daughter and no one did."{Anna of Cleves}
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