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You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.
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Philippa Gregory |
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If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.
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england
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Philippa Gregory |
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He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.
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Philippa Gregory |
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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.
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Philippa Gregory |
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A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.
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Philippa Gregory |
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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.
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romance
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Philippa Gregory |
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When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
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marriage
wife
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Philippa Gregory |
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ec1d0dc
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The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.
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Philippa Gregory |
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Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.
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Philippa Gregory |
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Jane," I said quietly. She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer. "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying." "If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out."
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jane-seymour
henry-viii
mary-boleyn
threat
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Philippa Gregory |
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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.
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Philippa Gregory |
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Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.
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Philippa Gregory |
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I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.
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boelyn
katherine
henry
mary
queen
king
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Philippa Gregory |
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I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?
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Philippa Gregory |
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But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
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Philippa Gregory |
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He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
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Philippa Gregory |
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He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say - what good are they?
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Philippa Gregory |
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A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to suppress her desires, to moderate her thoughts and to spend her days putting another first. She has to put him first even when she longs to serve herself or her children. She has to put him first even if she longs to judge for herself. She has to put him first even when she knows best. To be a good wife is to be a woman with a will of iron that ..
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wife
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Philippa Gregory |
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I am too dark in my heart tonight.
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Philippa Gregory |
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For most of my life i have been adored by fools and hated by people of good sense, and they all make up stories about me in which I am either a saint or a whore. But I am above these judgments, I am a Queen.
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Philippa Gregory |
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Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
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Philippa Gregory |
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I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?
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henry-viii
mary-boleyn
historical-fiction
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Philippa Gregory |
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I woke at dawn every morning to his touch, the delight of his warmth and the heady smell of his skin. I had never before lain with a man who had loved me completely, for myself, and it was a dizzy experience. I had never lain with a man whose touch I adored without any need to hide my adoration, or exaggerate it, or adjust it at all. I simply loved him as if he were my one and only lover, and he loved me too with the same simplicty of appet..
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Philippa Gregory |
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Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your rights.
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Philippa Gregory |
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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.
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women
inspirational
fearless
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Philippa Gregory |
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When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.
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Philippa Gregory |
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I have learned the power of surviving.
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Philippa Gregory |
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The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.
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Philippa Gregory |
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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.
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Philippa Gregory |
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If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.
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Philippa Gregory |
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It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.
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Philippa Gregory |
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Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.
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henry-viii
historical-fiction
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Philippa Gregory |
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I had meant my promise to George. I had said that I was, before anything else, a Boleyn and a Howard through and through; but now, sitting in th shadowy room, looking out over the gray slates of the city, and up at the dark clouds leaning on the roof of Westminster Palace, I suddenly realized that George was wrong, and that my family was wrong, and that I had been wrong-- for all my life. I was not a Howard before anything else. Before anyt..
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Philippa Gregory |
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The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.
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Philippa Gregory |
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Some women attract desire. Others do not.
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Philippa Gregory |
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The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.
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Philippa Gregory |
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Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.
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Philippa Gregory |
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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 breas..
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romantic
love
inspirational
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Philippa Gregory |
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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.
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Philippa Gregory |
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En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
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Philippa Gregory |
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Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
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mary
to
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Philippa Gregory |
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Good Evening , Sir John. I hope that you will accept a little gift from me.' I should be honored, Your Majesty.' I want to give you a little carved stool from my privy chambers. A pretty little piece from France. I hope you will like it.' I should be grateful.' It is for your daughter. For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine.
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Philippa Gregory |
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When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
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Philippa Gregory |
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Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.
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Philippa Gregory |