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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1755bcf | Getting a woman into power is not the point--it's getting a good woman into power who thinks and cares about what she does. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 7904ae7 | Dinner was a meal where good manners overlaid discomfort. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| e881ae8 | The most powerful men of the kingdom have dragged a duchess down and sent her out to be a marvel to the common people of London. They are so deeply afraid of her that they took the risk to dishonor their own. They are so anxious to save themselves that they thought they should throw her aside. | politics witch-trials women | Philippa Gregory | |
| 42e563e | This child could not command a pet dove." Harsh but true, lol!" | Philippa Gregory | ||
| a122e8a | The stewards, and then the bailiffs, and then finally the lawyers meet. They wrangle, they agree, and we are to be married in June. It is no little decision for me - for the first time in my life I have my own lands in my own hands as a widow; once I become a wife everything becomes Lord Stanley's property. I have to struggle to reserve what I can from the law that rules that a wife has no rights, and I keep what I can, but I know that I am.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| a2452ea | I am sure your piety does you great credit, Margaret. But certainly, if God is speaking to the king, then He has not chosen the best time for this conversation. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 421b40a | If He were not God, then one would think it very badly planned. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 4737afa | 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. | motherhood royalty | Philippa Gregory | |
| 6146c65 | And it seems to me that there is nothing more likely to cure a woman of lust than marriage. Now I understand what the saint meant when he said that it was better to marry than to burn. In my experience, if you marry, you certainly won't burn. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 14c00d5 | He bares his yellow teeth in a smile at me. 'Everyone is always our enemy,' he says. 'But right now, we are winning. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| a011b28 | Margaret...you must know that you could never change your own life. You are a girl: girls have no choice. You could never even choose your own husband: you are of the royal family. A husband would always have been chosen for you. It is forbidden for one of royal blood to marry their own choice. You know this too. And finally, you are of the House of Lancaster. You cannot choose your allegiance. You have to serve your house, your family, and.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 0560bf8 | Affection is not important to you, nor to me. You want power Margaret, power and wealth; and so do I. Nothing matters as much as this to either of us, and we will sacrifice anything for it. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 5ddc5e2 | 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 .. | love marriage | Philippa Gregory | |
| db6d0b2 | 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." | history war | Philippa Gregory | |
| c9277d8 | Go with the knowledge that I will think of you every time I lift your boy from his bed, every time I kneel for my prayers, every time I order my horse, every hour of every day. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 7f1869f | 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 | ||
| bd85ef4 | lechery?" he asked with a wink, guessing from the hour that I had been with some palace kitchen-maid. "Oh aye, most vile," I said cheerfully, and jumped into the boat." | lechery | Philippa Gregory | |
| a0a9e49 | Before God, I love you and cherish you more than anything in the world. Of course I want to marry you. I love you heart and soul. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 2aaa7de | I am marrying the finest man I have ever known." "It will cost you dear," he warns. "It would be worse to lose him." | Philippa Gregory | ||
| ba6fb16 | 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 walk towards it. Remember - anything you fear, you walk slowly and steadily towards it. And smile. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 08c0f56 | She's like an anchor that he has forgotten, but still it keeps him steady. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 600c5d0 | There was a magic: and the name of it was love. | magic | Philippa Gregory | |
| 98aa3b3 | You have to sit with your longing and know that you may not get what you want; you have to encounter the danger of longing for something without the expectation of getting your desire. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| c27503c | I want my honour to be about me as a person, not me as an object with boundaries and gateways, as if I were a field - someone can touch my hand, someone can see my face, someone else can't even speak to me. If my honour is a real thing then it can't depend on whether a man sees my face, or touches my hand, or kisses my lips. If I am an honourable woman then I am an honourable woman like a man is an honourable man - whatever I wear, however .. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 4a6f911 | A woman who loved him would have to learn obedience, and I was not yet ready to be an obedient wife. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 982e4d4 | Then life taught me a harder lesson, beloved: it is better to forgive an enemy than destroy him. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 9bfa8fc | I would like you to have a beautiful day every day. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 3ada9fc | 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. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 406953d | I can't sleep," he says so quietly that only I can hear. "I can't sleep. I can't sleep. I can't sleep." "Nor I." "You neither?" "No." "Truly?" "Yes." He sighs a deep sigh, as if he is relieved. "Is this love then?" "I suppose so." "I can't eat." "No." "I can't think of anything but you. I can't go on another moment like this; I can't ride out into battle like this. I am as foolish as a boy. I am mad for you, like a boy. I cannot be without .. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 61056e6 | Good God, what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard. It is truly amazing. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 1f0d313 | 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. | royal-family | Philippa Gregory | |
| e646ef1 | You are my heart. Even if you are a broken heart | love | Philippa Gregory | |
| d0a41a5 | He treats her as if he would spare her any fatigue, as if he has dedicated his life to her happiness. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 0b07101 | And all I want to hear are the sweetest words in the world, when he says: "Bed, Wife." | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 0916c3a | You look as if you would eat me up," he says. "I would," I say. "I cannot think how to sate my desire for you. I think I will have to keep you prisoner here and eat you up in little cutlets, day after day." "If I kept you prisoner, I would devour you in one greedy swallow," he chuckles. "But you would not get out till you were with child." | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 01aee07 | Uzela sam knjige, misleci da cu iz njih trgati po nekoliko stranica, spaljivati ih dio po dio. Prva knjiga, napisana na latinskom, rastvorila mi se u ruci. Zgrabila sam debeli snop mekih stranica. Prepustile su se mojim prstima kao da nemaju snage, kao da nisu najopasnija stvar na svijetu. okusala sam ih istrgnuti iz mekoh hrpta, ali onda sam zastala. Nisam to mogla uciniti. Nisam to zeljela uciniti. Cucnula sam s knjigom u ruci pokraj trep.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 82ecdb6 | but no one could control Mark Littleberry; the man was fundamentally uncontrollable. | Richard Preston | ||
| 2e77ea2 | The emergence of AIDS, Ebola, and any number of other rain-forest agents appears to be a natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere. | Richard Preston | ||
| c173e82 | farms on the lower slopes of the mountain. As the eye moved from | Richard Preston | ||
| c140aa7 | A policy of moving out and doing it, and asking forgiveness afterward, is much better than a policy of asking permission and having it denied. | Richard Preston | ||
| 9ee3314 | On May 14th, 1796, Jenner scratched the arm of a boy named James Phipps, introducing into his skin a droplet of cowpox pus that he had scraped from a blister on the hand of Sarah Nelmes, a dairy worker. He called this pus "the Vaccine Virus"--the word vaccine is derived from the Latin word for cow. The boy developed a single pustule on his arm, and it healed rapidly. A few months later, Jenner scratched the boy's arm with lethal infective p.. | Richard Preston | ||
| bf0545f | The boy swelled up, and his skin filled with pockets of blood. In some places, the skin almost separated from the underlying tissue. This happened during the last phase, while he was on the respirator. It is called third spacing. If you bleed into the first space, you bleed into your lungs. If you bleed into the second space, you bleed into your stomach and intestines. If you bleed into the third space, you bleed into the space between the .. | Richard Preston | ||
| 091f6f5 | I know you have this idea that a surgical mask and gown are all you need to handle an Ebola patient, but I think you need to use a higher level of containment," and he offered to pick up the sick man in an Army ambulance--put him in an Army biocontainment pod--and carry the pod to the Army's facilities at the Institute." | Richard Preston | ||
| e8b635f | bleeds into itself; the heart muscle softens and has hemorrhages into its chambers, and blood squeezes out of the heart muscle as the heart beats, and it floods the chest cavity. The brain becomes clogged with dead blood cells, a condition known as sludging of the brain. Ebola attacks the lining of the eyeball, and the eyeballs may fill up with blood: you may go blind. Droplets of blood stand out on the eyelids: you may weep blood. The bloo.. | Richard Preston |