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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1f0a56f | Wideacre faces due south and the sun shines all day on the yellow stone until it is warm and powdery to the touch. The sun travels from gable end to gable end so the front of the house is never in shadow. When I was a small child collecting petals in the rose garden, or loitering at the back of the house in the stable yard, it seemed that Wideacre was the very centre of the world with the sun defining our boundaries in the east at dawn, unt.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 2794ed3 | I want to teach him his prayers and his letters and his manners. I want him for my own. Not just because he is motherless, but because I am childless and I want someone to love. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| cb266b1 | They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less. | lovers the-cousins-war | Philippa Gregory | |
| d514e28 | Every woman should marry for her own advantage since her husband will represent her, as visible as her front door, for the rest of his life. If she chooses a wastrel she will be avoided by all her neighbors as a poor woman; catch a duke and she will be Your Grace, and everyone will be her friend. She can be pious, she can be learned,she cane be witty and wise and beautiful, but if she is married to a fool she will be "that poor Mrs. Fool" u.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 78fabb4 | We all had parts to play, we all had costumes to wear, we all had to be as merry as we could be, for the King was always laughing this winter and the Queen never stopped smiling. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 10e7c53 | She poured me a cup of coffee and I drank it standing by the back door, looking out of the back garden. I felt it scald my tongue but it did not warm me. It was heavy with sugar but it did not taste sweet. I gave a little sigh. There are some days when nothing seems right. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| cc8028b | If it means something to you,then take it to heart. If it means nothing, it means nothing, let it go. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| fcac27c | But seeing those words that were first written, and scratched out, and rewritten again in print and bound into a book, I know that I love the process of writing and publishing. To take a thought and work on it, to render it into the clearest form possible, and then to send it out into the world--this is work so precious and so joyful that I am not surprised that men have kept it to themselves. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 5362246 | 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 | ||
| 8c141ab | You will have to reconcile yourself, as I do, as Isabel does, to being the defeated. | defeated | Philippa Gregory | |
| 36a0929 | Come back to me." He laughs. It is not forced; it is the laugh of a happy man, confident in his luck and his abilities. "I will," he says. "Trust me. You have married a man who is going to die in his bed, preferably after making love to the most beautiful woman in England." He holds out his arms and I step towards him and feel the warmth of his embrace. "Make sure you do," I say. "And I will make sure that the most beautiful woman in your e.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 5b83dc7 | What's your family?" he demanded through clenched teeth. " Boleyn." " What's your kin?" "Howard's." "What's your home?" "Hever and Rochford." "What's your kingdom?" "England." "Who's your king?" "Henry." "Then serve them. In that order. Did I say the Spanish queen once in that list?" | Philippa Gregory | ||
| eb29924 | The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not. | history royalty war | Philippa Gregory | |
| 7ac42a2 | When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated. | history unending war | Philippa Gregory | |
| c136cb8 | 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. | parenting | Philippa Gregory | |
| 1763217 | It's not a question of wanting to be queen; it's not even a question of wanting honorable love anymore. I am mad for him, I am madly in love with him. I would go to him if I had to walk barefoot. Tell me I am one of many. I don't care! I don't care for my name or for my pride anymore. As long as I can have him once more, that's all I want, just to love him; all I want to be certain of is that I will see him again, that he loves me. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| e41889e | We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up. It is always onward and upward | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 3892ab8 | If everyone in Christendom ate nothing but fish on Friday, then the fishermen and their children would eat well the rest of the week. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| b4a1821 | it is easier to unleash evil than call it back again. Any fool can blow up a wind, but who can know where it will blow or when it will stop? | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 39f9da9 | never have imagined that she would imprison a woman about to give birth for doing nothing worse than marrying the young man she loves. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 92e9f03 | She was a woman whose spirit had been hammered and forged until she could only ring true. Compared with the rest of us sho was silver, while we were pewter, a common of lead and tin. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 06ecc19 | The one thing that Jane's death should teach us is that life is precious and every day is a gift that we should treasure. | katherine-grey the-last-tudor | Philippa Gregory | |
| 590fbae | To assure someone that if enough nuns sing enough Masses then her dead child will go to heaven is trickery as low as passing a false coin as good. To buy a pardon from the pope, to force the pope to annul a marriage, to make him set aside kinship laws, to watch as he fleeces his cardinals, who charge the bishops, who rent to the priests, who seek their tithes from the poor - all these abuses would have to fall away if we agreed that a soul .. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| b256a9f | I cannot catch courage from his smile. I have to do this all entirely alone, with thousands of strangers watching my every movement. Nothing is to detract from my rise from gentry woman to Queen of England, from mortal to a being divine: next to God. When they crown me and anoint me with the holy oil, I become a new being, one above mortals, only one step below angels, beloved, and the elect of heaven. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 18ae113 | I have my own loyalties and obligations that I consider and honor. They are not his. They are not at the beck and call of any man. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| f71bb1f | She knew that being a mortal woman is hard on the heart, hard on the feet. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| f252e16 | You will not be a beautiful woman at court with nothing to do but make magic. The road you have chosen will mean that you have to spend your life scheming and fighting. Our task, as your family, is to make sure you win. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| f833b88 | Nothing in the world matters more than life. You have a long road to walk and a lot of lessons to learn if you don't know that. | historical-fiction | Philippa Gregory | |
| 762e8d0 | However heart-stopping his smile and however honest his eyes, however much I think of him as a boy fired to greatness by his own ambition, I cannot trust him. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| f6c10b0 | in the water is a woman of such beauty that her skin is paler than the white marble and her hair is darker than the night skies. He falls in love with her at once, and she with him, and he takes her to the castle and makes her his wife. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| eb923db | Dzelat mi prilazi i kaze: "Spustite glavu na panj i rasirite ruke kad budete spremni, gospo." Poslusno spustam ruke na panj i nespretno kleknem na travu. Osecam njen miris pod kolenima. Osecam bol u ledima i cujem krik galebova i neciji plac. A onda odjednom, bas kad se spremim da spustim celo na hrapavu povrsinu panja i rasirim ruke da dam znak krvniku da moze da udari, odjednom me preplavljuje talas radosti i zudnje za zivotom, i kazem: ".. | death dying execution haunting henry-viii intriguing last-words margaret-pole philippa-gregory | Philippa Gregory | |
| 6a8da96 | Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 6d1817c | One should never offend more men than one can persuade, | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 224edeb | you are my joy. You are worth tens of thousands. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| ac9a368 | Last time I danced in these rooms it was the Christmas feast and I was wearing a dress of silk as rich as Queen Anne's own, made to the same pattern as the queen's, as if to force a comparison between her and me--her junior by ten years; and her husband the king, Richard, could not take his eyes off me. The whole court knew that he was falling in love with me and that he would leave his old sick wife to be with me. I danced with my sisters,.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| bd11b6c | We are not ordered by God to judge each other. We are not even ordered by him to consider another person's sin. We are ordered by God to let Him consider it, to let Him be judge. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 1ccdb37 | keep her away from his brother. They say he had her locked in her room. But true love prevailed, and the young duke and the young widowed princess fell into each other's arms. At all events, this version of the story is all desperately romantic and wonderful. Fools of all ages enjoy it very much. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 5b651b5 | I stop still with the shock and fell my head swim. Richard takes my hand. We stand for a moment, handclasped as if we are clinging to each other in this new and terrifying world. We don't notice the passing servants, or the courtiers hurrying by. Richard looks into my eyes and once again I know us for the children that we were, who had to make our own destiny in a world we could not understand. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 559717b | 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.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 55b3244 | I have the Sight, I should have seen it all, but some things are too dark to forsee. These are hard times, and England is a country of sorrows. No mother can be sure that she will not bury her sons. When a country is at war, cousin against cousin, brother against brother, no boy is safe. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| ec1d776 | You too might find that your women friends are your truest friends, your sisters are the keepers of your memories and hopes for the future. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 92acd60 | My father was exceptionally tall and exceptionally handsome, and he only had to walk into a room to dominate the assembly of people. He revelled in the latest fashions and the most beautiful rich cloths and color. He was infallibly attractive to women, unable to help himself, greedy for their attention; and God knows they could not restrain their desires. A room full of women was always half in love with my father, and their husbands torn b.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 6bd589e | You don't get to be a favorite at a tyrant's court without beheading your principles every day. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| fcecc93 | How would I know? I don't hold with prophecies and predictions and long-lost kings. I don't have giants in my family tree, like you Nevilles. I don't have three suns in the sky like you Yorks. I am not descended from a water goddess who comes out of a river to mate with mortals! When your family was founded, no one had ever heard of us. When your uncles were on the throne, mine were quiet City men. I don't know what you might have, what you.. | Philippa Gregory |