Philippa Gregory Quotes

I must say tonight my greatest hope is to die in my bed, at peace with the world, as an old man.

I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.

I will go to war should there ever be a cause I think worth dying for--and not before.

What he does not know is that his greatest friend of all, the man he loves as a brother, has become indeed like a brother: as false to him as any envious rivalrous brother of York.

You are a son of Melusina, I say, trying to smile. You sound like her when she had to be free to go into the water.

And it was Anne who was before the table like a prisoner before the bar. She did not stand with her head bowed as I always did. Anne stood with her head high, one dark eyebrow slightly raised, and she...

I think nobody in the whole world knows what it is to be in love, to be so beloved.

I understand now why they break into convents, force women against their will, defy sanctuary to finish the killing chase. They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I...

Tal vez hay un Dios que es como la luz del fuego, pero todo lo que podemos ver son las sombras que nosotros mismos proyectamos cuando caminamos frente al fuego. Entonces vemos grandes sombras moviéndo...

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

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.

Queen Katherine had been born a princess. From the moment she could talk she had been taught to guard her tongue. From the moment she could walk she had been taught to step carefully and speak kindly...

When you are still and thoughtful you are as lovely as the statues they are carving in Italy.

They dressed her and she laced tightly so that her breasts were pressed into two tantalizing curves of creamy flesh at the neck of her gown. Her glossy black hair was exposed by her pushed-back hood,...

It’s a fool who is afraid of nothing, I say. And a brave man is one who knows fear and rides out and faces it.

It's not magic. It's what any slut does if she has her wits about her.

I suddenly realized that George was wrong, and my family was wrong, and that I had been wrong—for all my life. I was not a Howard before anything else. Before anything else I was a woman who was capab...

So let me see? What do I have? Surprise! Surprise!

We the daughters of Melusina,' she corrects me. 'Your grandmother was a daughter of the water goddess of the royal house of Burgundy and she never forgot that she was both royal and magical. When I wa...

She dropped to the stool before the little looking glass, rested her head on her hands and stared at herself. He’s in love with me, she said. He’s mad for me. I spend all my time bringing him close an...