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If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.
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When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it.
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We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.
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All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
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When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.
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gregory
mary
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Philippa Gregory |
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You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.
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For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would always be a different being from him, listening to a different music, hearing a different sound, familiar with a different element.
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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
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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.
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women
monarchy
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Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die, but I pray God save the king and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never: and to me he was ever a good, a gentle and sovereign lo..
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Philippa Gregory |
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Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.
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katherine
henry-viii
historical-fiction
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Philippa Gregory |
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Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.
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history
women
margery-jourdemayne
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Philippa Gregory |
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He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
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romance
historical
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Philippa Gregory |
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Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.
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Philippa Gregory |
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War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
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war
peace
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Philippa Gregory |
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Sometimes we win; sometimes we lose. The main thing is that we always, we always go on.
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Philippa Gregory |
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To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
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Philippa Gregory |
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In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.
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Philippa Gregory |
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I will learn to smile at my enemies.
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Philippa Gregory |
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The law is what powerful men say it shall be.
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Philippa Gregory |
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Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror. The scaffolds on the corners, the list of things you may not read. These things always go together.
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forbidden-knowledge
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Philippa Gregory |
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We have to be more royal than royalty itself or nobody will believe us.
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the-white-queen
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Philippa Gregory |
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It's a fool who is afraid of nothing," I say. "And a brave man is one who knows fear and rides out and faces it."
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Philippa Gregory |
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I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.
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Philippa Gregory |
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She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.
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Philippa Gregory |
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Loyaute me lie - Loyalty Binds Me
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motto
loyalty
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Philippa Gregory |
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I feel no peace, I feel nothing. I think I will feel nothing forever.
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depression
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Philippa Gregory |
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Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.
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Philippa Gregory |
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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.
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reading
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Philippa Gregory |
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Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
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poetry
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Philippa Gregory |
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I was taught to be queen by Margaret of Anjou, and perhaps I have taught you how to be queen in turn. This is fortune's wheel indeed.' With my forefinger I draw a circle in the air, the sign of fortune's wheel. 'You can go very high and you can sink very low, but you can rarely turn the wheel at your own bidding.
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Philippa Gregory |
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True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.
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Philippa Gregory |
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I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman.
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history
women
love
objectification
objectification-of-women
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I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.
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Philippa Gregory |
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They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.
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Philippa Gregory |
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Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.
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Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl) |
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It is luck to love someone who is free to love you in return.
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Philippa Gregory |
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When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
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Philippa Gregory |
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As men have to fight, women have to wait and plan. This is your time for waiting and planning, and you must be constant and discreet. Honesty matters so much less.
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Philippa Gregory |
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I am not a yard of ribbon. I am not a leg of ham. I am not for sale to anyone.
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Philippa Gregory |
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She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men.
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Philippa Gregory |
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Yes, Your Grace," I correct her. "I am My Lady, the King's Mother, now, and you shall curtsey to me, as low as to a queen of royal blood. This was my destiny: to put my son on the throne of England, and those who laughed at my visions and doubted my vocation will call me My Lady, the King's Mother, and I shall sign myself Margaret Regina: Margaret R."
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red-queen
the-red-queen
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There is nothing to fear,' she says to me softly. 'There is never anything to fear. The worst fear is of fear itself, and you can conquer that.' 'How?' I murmur. It feels as if I am talking in my sleep, floating down a stream of sleep. 'How can I conquer the worst fear?' 'You just decide,' she says simply. 'Just decide that you are not going to be a fearful woman and when you come to something that makes you apprehensive, you face it and ..
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Philippa Gregory |
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In Spain," indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy."
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Philippa Gregory |