Philippa Gregory Quotes

I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.

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.

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

I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.

When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.

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.

He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.

I have given my word that only death will take me from you.

This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you have always thought it; it is not like a ballad. It is a muddle and a mess, and a sinful waste, and good men have died and more will follow.

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

Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.

The baby should always be saved in preference to the mother. That is the advice of the Holy Church, you know that. I was only reminding women of their duty. There is no need to make everything so personal, Margaret. You make everything into your own tragedy.

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.

The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.

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.

To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads.

I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman.

I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous loveliness.

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

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