Philippa Gregory Quotes

Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.

To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.

She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.

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.

But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.

We're going' Anne said firmly. So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.' Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness.

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.

In Spain," indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.

When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.

Some women attract desire. Others do not.

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight

When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?

If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.

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.

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.

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.

En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.

Do you not think that God will protect us?”“No, ” he said flatly. “My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious.

The truth is the last thing that matters, ' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

We're going' Anne said firmly. So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.'Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness.

Stars in the night, ' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight

Men die in battle women die in childbirth.

The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.

When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.

There is no one who loves peace more than a soldier

He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.

My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.

Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart.

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.

Perhaps we will not be great people, chosen by God, but just happy.

I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.

I feel no peace, I feel nothing. I think I will feel nothing forever.

There was a magic: and the name of it was love.

They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.

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.

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.

This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.

Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.

And now I want love. Lust is no good for me. I want love. His love.

And now I wnt love. Lust is no good for me. I want love. His love.

And then the sword came down like a flash of lightning, and then her head was off her body and the long rivalry between me and the other Boleyn girl was over.

I wil not heat treason from my own daughterWhat will you do behead me for treason? We are not an amry at warWe are an army at war! This is your brother's rightful throne that we are talking about

I was born to be your rival, ' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me.

All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon torment like this.

I am fit to capture a unicorn, and I should not be so questioned.

You are my heart. Even if you are a broken heart