“ I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye. Philippa Gregory
“ 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 Philippa Gregory
“ Dželat mi prilazi i kaže: Spustite glavu na panj i raširite ruke kad budete spremni, gospo.Poslušno spuštam ruke na panj i nespretno kleknem na travu. Osećam njen miris pod kolenima. Osećam bol u leđi… Philippa Gregory
“ I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of taw… Philippa Gregory
“ I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we? Philippa Gregory
“ 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… Philippa Gregory
“ Jane, I said quietly.She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer.Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying.If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is… Philippa Gregory
“ It’s not his friendship I miss,’ Elizabeth said bluntly. ‘It’s him. The very person of him. His presence. I want his shadow on my wall, I want the smell of him. I can’t eat without him, I can’t do the… Philippa Gregory
“ The tears in my eyes are now running down my cheeks at the thought that I have been his wife and his bedfellow, his companion and his duchess, and even now, though he is near to death, still he does n… Philippa Gregory
“ I sit on the bed and kick off my shoes, and he kneels before me and takes the riding boots, holding one open for my bare foot. I hesitate; it is such an intimate gesture between a young woman and a ma… Philippa Gregory
“ There are women that men marry and there are women that men don't, Anne pronouned. And you are the sort of mistress a man doesn't bother to marry. Sons or no sons. Yes, Mary said. I expect your right.… Philippa Gregory
“ 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. Philippa Gregory
“ I swear I will never trust Edward again. This is not kingly, this is not as Arthur of Camelot. This is behaviour as base as an archer’s bastard and I cannot meet his eyes when I see him stuffing his m… Philippa Gregory
“ I don't know how much we will rise, I say stoutly. And I have no fear of falling.He looks at me. You are ambitious to rise?We are all on fortune's wheel, I say. Without a doubt we will rise. We may fa… Philippa Gregory
“ I can’t sleep, he says so quietly that only I can hear. I can’t sleep. I can’t sleep. I can’t sleep.Nor I.You neither?No.Truly?Yes.He sighs a deep sigh, as if he is relieved. Is this love then?I suppo… Philippa Gregory
“ And – I think you know, don’t you? – that I love you, Anne.’I feel as if I have been living in a loveless world for too long. The last tender face I saw was my father’s when he sailed for England. ‘Yo… Philippa Gregory
