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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 54f8da9 | Rap was a natural resource, might as well pay for sunlight or the very breeze or an early-morning car alarm going off. No, I spent my money on music for moping. Perfect for drifting off on the divan with a damp towel on your forehead, a minor-chord soundtrack as you moaned into reflecting pools about your elaborate miserableness. The singers were faint, androgynous ghosts, dragging their too-heavy chains across the plains of misery, the glo.. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 8d40501 | To forbid the thought of escape, even that slightest butterfly thought of escape, was to murder one's humanity. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 7e1b560 | She smiles. "You know you can do nothing. What will be, will be. If there is a battle"--I gasp but her smile is steady--"if there is a battle, then either your husband will win, and your son will take the throne; or your brother will win and you will be sister to the king." | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 0f13284 | When you are still and thoughtful you are as lovely as the statues they are carving in Italy. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 5ea5730 | He greeted Anne with a roar of joy, swept her up and kissed her. You would think he had never been Sir Loyal Heart to his Queen Katherine. You would think it had been his worst enemy who had died and not a woman who had loved him faithfully for twenty-seven years and died with a blessing for him on her lips. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 36d5fe9 | I have a longing for you, Lady Elizabeth Grey, that I have never felt for any woman before. Will you come to me? I ask it not as a king, and not even as a soldier who might die in battle, but as a simple man to the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. Come to me, I beg you, come to me. It could be my last wish. Will you come to me tonight? | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 3d0f220 | The mown grass is growing again nearly to our knees; we will take a second crop of hay from this field, rich and green and starred with moon daisies, buttercups and the bright, blowsy heads of poppies. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 82b30d4 | I cannot be your mistress," I say simply. "I would rather die than dishonor my name. I cannot bring that shame on my family." I pause. I am anxious not to be too discouraging. "Whatever I might wish in my heart," I say very softly." | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 2aed74d | He will come to trust you, perhaps," she says. "If you have years together. You may grow to be a loving husband and wife, if you have long enough. And if I never tell you anything, then there will never be a moment where you have to lie to him. Or worse--never a moment when you have to choose where your loyalties lie. I wouldn't want you to have to choose between your father's family and your husband's. I wouldn't want you to have to choose.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| db4d6cf | And still the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 3c65bdf | I am exhorted to be virtuous and fertile. The people see me indicated as the choice of God for Queen of England. Choirs sing as I enter the city, rose petals are showered down on me. I am myself, my own tableau: the Englishwoman from the House of Lancaster come to be the Queen of York. I am an object of peace and unity. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| b61601f | His weight is on me; he is pushing me down. I turn my head away but his mouth is on my neck, my breast; I am panting with desire, and then I feel, unexpectedly, a sudden rush of anger at the realization that he is no longer embracing me but forcing me, holding me down as if I were some slut behind a haystack. He is pulling up my gown as if I were a whore; he is pushing his knee between my legs as if I have consented, and my temper makes me .. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| ced5657 | You will be the mother of the next King of England," she declares. "The red rose and the white, a rose without a thorn. You will have a son, and we will call him Arthur of England." She takes my hands. "This is your destiny, my daughter. I will help you." | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 2932931 | The queen sees me coming, turns toward us and waits, with a killer's patience, for me to reach the chancel steps. | patience queen | Philippa Gregory | |
| c42c4de | When he saw her, the water lapping on her scales, head down in the bath he had built especially for her, thinking that she would like to wash--not to revert to fish--he had that instant revulsion that some men feel when they understand, perhaps for the first time, that a woman is truly "other." She is not a boy though she is weak like a boy, nor a fool though he has seen her tremble with feeling like a fool. She is not a villain in her capa.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 7d5eb41 | I believe that a desire and a prayer and a spell are all the same thing, I say. 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. And sometimes you have to find courage to k.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| f9a82e0 | This is the man who hopes to be King of England. He has to marry a princess. He's not going to marry some beggarly widow from the camp of his enemy, who stood out on the road to plead with him to restore her dowry. If he marries an Englishwoman at all, she will be one of the great ladies of the Lancaster court, probably Warwick's daughter Isabel. He's not going to marry a girl whose own father fought against him. He's more likely to marry a.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 13aaaa5 | Don't waste your courage on hating him. Keep yourself to yourself. And keep up your courage. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| d8fadcd | She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways, but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man's world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man's drum. Do | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 87c5d45 | The scene had been a nightmare, one of those insane nightmares where the most normal objects become infinitely menacing. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 030cef6 | I knew when I first saw you that you were the woman I would want for all my life. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| b1e6139 | Eyes downcast, she went past me without a glance. Dismissively her gown brushed my knees as if I should have drawn further back, out of her way, as if everyone should always step back to let Anne through. Then she was gone and as I looked up I met the Queen's eye. She looked blankly at me as I might look at a rivalry of birds fluttering in a dovecote. It was not as if it mattered. They would all be eaten in time. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 73b6392 | Sometimes God gives us a moment of destiny, and we have to hear the call and rise to it. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| f42c57a | Conviviencia--living alongside each other in harmony, whatever their beliefs. For the enemy is not another person who believes in a god. The enemy is ignorance, and people who believe in nothing and care for nothing. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 2d6d455 | much commented on. I have three new hoods to match, which | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 622f920 | For a moment I felt the terror. The deep primeval terror of something one does not understand, something which is against nature or, at the least, against everything one has ever seen or known before. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 24b38cc | Although I am cursed by dreams, I still cannot stop myself sleeping. I drop into darkness every night and dream that Richard has come to me, laughing. He tells me that the battle went his way and we are to be married. He holds my hands as I protest that they came and told me that Henry had won, and he kisses me and calls me a fool, a little darling fool. I wake believing it to be true, and feel a sudden sick realization when I look at the w.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 97b6f34 | But Elizabeth and I are accustomed to loss, we are Plantagenets--we dine on a diet of betrayal and heartbreak. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| fc40dd4 | Lady | Philippa Gregory | ||
| deb15fd | For a moment we glared at each other, stubborn as cats on the stable wall, full of mutual resentment and something darker, the old sense between sisters that there is only really room in the world for one girl. The sense that every fight could be to the death. | resentment siblings sisters | Philippa Gregory | |
| 13e8c02 | When I was first at court and he was the young husband of a beautiful wife, he was a golden king. They called him the handsomest prince in Christendom, and that was not flattery. Mary Boleyn was in love with him, Anne was in love with him, I was in love with him. There was not one girl at court, nor one girl in the country, who could resist him. Then he turned against his wife, Queen Katherine, a good woman, and Anne taught him how to be cr.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 8fd2ec3 | A title like 'the Lady,' for those who are too mealymouthed to call a whore a whore. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 8d57117 | As my wife you cannot refuse me. I have a right to you, as your betrothed husband. From now, till your death, you will never be able to refuse me. There can be no rape between us, only my rights and your duty. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 71d1b7c | I was near to delighted laughter because 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. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| f3bae52 | I can't think why men would believe that it is a better world where something beautiful is destroyed and something broken left in its place. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 2820f71 | If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 36bbfaf | Uma palavra feita sobre coacao nao tem valor- vou ser livre. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| ca5cb29 | Why not?' She asks the most challenging questions that a woman can ask. 'Why should I not read? Why should I not think? Why should I not speak? | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 5ca5ae0 | How should I forget them? They are around me like wasps around a honeypot. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| a0fb400 | Remember, she needs you now. Don't sell your services too cheap. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 15be68e | I believe that to be a free woman is to be both passionate and intelligent; and I am a free woman at last. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 64ed915 | She can be pious, she can be learned, she can be witty and wise and beautiful, but if she is married to a fool she will be "that poor Mrs. Fool" until the day he dies." | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 29db8df | Nowhere in the Bible does it say that marriage is a sacrament," Anne replies. "It was not God who joined us together. The priest says it was; but this is not true. This is the word of the church, not the Bible. Our wedding, like every wedding, was an act of man, not of God. It was not a holy sacrament. My father forced me into an agreement with Thomas, and when I was old enough and had understanding enough I revoked that agreement. I claim .. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 9491f57 | She looks down at the ground to hide her smile of pleasure and to affect modesty, but when the dance brings them together and she takes his hand, her eyes come up to him and they gaze at each other with absolute longing. | Philippa Gregory |