Philippa Gregory Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.”
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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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“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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“I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.”
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“Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.”
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“I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.”
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“I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.”
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“When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.”
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“Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.”
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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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“I have given my word that only death will take me from you.”
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“But I don't forget and I don't forgive.”
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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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“Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the word. And now that I am a woman grown, I know that I love you and I want this son of yours, and our children who will come. I have seen a woman break her heart for love: my Queen Mary. I have seen another break her soul to avoid it: my Princess Elizabeth. I don't want to be Mary or Elizabeth, I want to be me: Hannah Verde Carpenter." "And we shall live somewhere that we can follow our belifs without danger," he insisted. "Yes," I said, "in the England that Elizabeth will make.”
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“I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle.”
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“When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.”
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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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“But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.”
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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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“We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.”
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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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“the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it”
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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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“I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.”
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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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