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1. "I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help." ~ Philippa Gregory
2. "It matters not at all that I do not want to marry, that I am afraid of the wedding, afraid of consummating the marriage, afraid of childbirth, afraid of everything about being a wife. Nobody even asks if I have lost my childhood sense of vocation, if I still want to be a nun. Nobody cares what I think at all. They treat me like an ordinary young woman, bred for wedding and bedding, and since they do not ask me what I think, nor observe what I feel, there is nothing that gives them pause at all." ~ Philippa Gregory
3. "A parcel--taken from one place to another, handed from one owner to another, unwrapped and bundled up at will--is all that I am. A vessel, for the bearing of sons, for one nobleman or another: it hardly matters who." ~ Philippa Gregory
4. "I felt his hardness and I suddenly understood-an older girl would have understood long before-that this was the currency of desire. He was my betrothed. he desired me. I desired him. All I had to do was tell him the truth." ~ Philippa Gregory
5. "They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less." ~ Philippa Gregory
6. "Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward." ~ Philippa Gregory
7. "Men command the world that they know . Everything that men know they make their own. Everything that they learn, they claim for themselves. They are like the alchemists who took for the laws that govern the world, and then want to own them and keep them secret. Everything they discover,they hug to themselves: they shape knowledge into their own selfish image. What is left to us women but the realms of the unknown?" ~ Philippa Gregory
8. "I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me." ~ Philippa Gregory
9. "I feel no peace, I feel nothing. I think I will feel nothing forever." ~ Philippa Gregory
10. "I don't much like Singapore. It's very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you get a sense of the history." ~ Philippa Gregory
11. "Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian." ~ Philippa Gregory
12. "I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things." ~ Philippa Gregory
13. "I would never lie to anyone about history." ~ Philippa Gregory
14. "The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold." ~ Philippa Gregory
15. "I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think is twice as difficult as writing either history or fiction." ~ Philippa Gregory
16. "The tears in my eyes are now running down my cheeks at the thought that I have been his wife and his bedfellow, his companion and his duchess, and even now, though he is near to death, still he does not love me. He has never loved me. He never will love me." ~ Philippa Gregory
17. "The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not." ~ Philippa Gregory
18. "Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better please him." ~ Philippa Gregory
19. "Like almost all girls I don't know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and the time. I only know the year and the season, and I only know the season because my mother had a great desire for asparagus when she was carrying me and swears that she ate it too green and her bellyache brought on my birth." ~ Philippa Gregory
20. "Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other." ~ Philippa Gregory
21. "I have given my word that only death will take me from you." ~ Philippa Gregory
22. "I do not grieve for him as a wife, as Anne Devereux has grieved for her husband William Herbert. She promised him she would never remarry, she swore she would go to her grave hoping to meet him in heaven. I suppose they were in some sort of love, thought married by contract. I suppose they found some sort of passion in their marriage. It is rare but not impossible. I do hope that they have no given my son ideas about loving his wife; a man who is to be king can marry only for advantage. A woman of sense would marry only for the improvement of her family. Only a lustful fool dreams every night of a marriage of love." ~ Philippa Gregory
23. "And – I think you know, don't you? – that I love you, Anne.'I feel as if I have been living in a loveless world for too long. The last tender face I saw was my father's when he sailed for England. ‘You do? Truly?'‘I do.' He rises to his feet and pulls me up to stand beside him. My chin comes to his shoulder, we are both dainty, long-limbed, coltish: well-matched. I turn my face into his jacket. ‘Will you marry me?' he whispers.‘Yes,' I say." ~ Philippa Gregory
24. "This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you have always thought it; it is not like a ballad. It is a muddle and a mess, and a sinful waste, and good men have died and more will follow." ~ Philippa Gregory
25. "I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day." ~ Philippa Gregory
26. "Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing." ~ Philippa Gregory
27. "...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong." ~ Philippa Gregory
28. "~My father says there are more than twenty thousand turned out for the king. It seems that most men think that we will win, that York will be captured and killed, though the king in his tender heart has said he will forgive them all if they will surrender.~Will there be another battle?~Unless York decides he cannot face the king in person. It is one sort of sin to kill your friends and cousins, quite another to order your bowmen to fire at the king's banner and him beneath it. What if the king is killed in battle? What if York brings his broadsword down on the king's sanctified head?" ~ Philippa Gregory
29. "Poor little girl. Poor little girl," Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me, a girl of thirteen years, whose own mother has said that they can let her die as long as a son and heir is born." ~ Philippa Gregory
30. "I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?" ~ Philippa Gregory
31. "Men die in battle; women die in childbirth." ~ Philippa Gregory
32. "The baby should always be saved in preference to the mother. That is the advice of the Holy Church, you know that. I was only reminding women of their duty. There is no need to make everything so personal, Margaret. You make everything into your own tragedy." ~ Philippa Gregory
33. "I say nothing, not one word, from beginning to end, and neither does he. If it were lawful for a woman to hate her husband, I would hate him as a rapist." ~ Philippa Gregory
34. "We may be of the same family, but that is the very reason why we are not friends, for we are rivals for the throne. What quarrels are worse than family quarrels?" ~ Philippa Gregory
35. "Another husband, another new house, another new country, but I never belong anywhere and I never own anything in my own right." ~ Philippa Gregory
36. "The castle will seem very quiet and strange without you here. The stone stairs and the chapel will miss your footstep, the gateway will will miss your laughter, and the wall will miss your shadow." ~ Philippa Gregory
37. "But the magic moment when he walks alone has not yet happened, and I was praying he would do it before I have to leave. Now he will take his first step without me. And every step thereafter, I know. Every step of his life, and me not there to see him walk." ~ Philippa Gregory
38. "I am old enough to be married twice. I am old enough to be bedded without tenderness or consideration. I am old enough to face death in the confinement room and be told that my own mother--my own mother--has commanded them to save the child and not me! I think I am a woman now. I have a babe in arms, and I have been married and widowed and now bethrothed again. I am like a draper's parcel to be sent about like cloth and cut to the pattern that people wish. My mother told me that my father died by his own hand and that we are an unlucky family. I think I am a woman now! I am treated as a woman grown when it suits you all, you can hardly make me a child again." ~ Philippa Gregory
39. "All this is always for nothing," he says. "Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should have been avoided. But if Edward can defeat the queen, and imprison her along with her husband, then it will indeed be over." ~ Philippa Gregory
40. "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." ~ Philippa Gregory
41. "Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the word. And now that I am a woman grown, I know that I love you and I want this son of yours, and our children who will come. I have seen a woman break her heart for love: my Queen Mary. I have seen another break her soul to avoid it: my Princess Elizabeth. I don't want to be Mary or Elizabeth, I want to be me: Hannah Verde Carpenter.""And we shall live somewhere that we can follow our belifs without danger," he insisted."Yes," I said, "in the England that Elizabeth will make." ~ Philippa Gregory
42. "I swear I will never trust Edward again. This is not kingly, this is not as Arthur of Camelot. This is behaviour as base as an archer's bastard and I cannot meet his eyes when I see him stuffing his mouth at King Louis' table and pocketing the gold forks." ~ Philippa Gregory
43. "Loyaute me lie - Loyalty Binds Me" ~ Philippa Gregory
44. "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." ~ Philippa Gregory
45. "She has a smile that grows slowly and then shines, like an angel's smile." ~ Philippa Gregory
46. "I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York's broodmare."I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. "You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn't that sin?"His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. "I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful,"- Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville -" ~ Philippa Gregory
47. "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." ~ Philippa Gregory
48. "To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads." ~ Philippa Gregory
49. "Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight" ~ Philippa Gregory
50. "Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free." ~ Philippa Gregory
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