Philippa Gregory Quotes

And still the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it.

Before God, I love you and cherish you more than anything in the world. Of course I want to marry you. I love you heart and soul.

Eyes downcast, she went past me without a glance. Dismissively her gown brushed my knees as if I should have drawn further back, out of her way, as if everyone should always step back to let Anne thro...

He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.

I am the daughter of a water goddess. I am a woman with water in her veins and power in her breeding. I am a woman who makes things happen, and I am not defeated yet. I am not defeated by a boy with a...

I believe that to be a free woman is to be both passionate and intelligent; and I am a free woman at last.

I cannot know what the future will bring us, he says in a rapid undertone. I cannot know where you will be given in marriage, nor what life might hold for me. But I can't let you go without telling yo...

I could not love this man, knowing that he would not listen to me, knowing that I was not allowed even to show him my sadness. He was the father of my children and yet he would have no interest in the...

I find I must prepare for my death. I don't fear it. Ever since I lost my son I have been weary to my soul, and I think, when it finally comes, it will be a lying down to sleep without fear of dreams,...

I had meant my promise to George. I had said that I was, before anything else, a Boleyn and a Howard through and through; but now, sitting in th shadowy room, looking out over the gray slates of the c...

I have learned the power of surviving.

I have loved you for years, she cried after him. I gave my womanhood to you. Tell me, in what way have I offended you? What have I ever done which was displeasing?

I stop still with the shock and fell my head swim. Richard takes my hand. We stand for a moment, handclasped as if we are clinging to each other in this new and terrifying world. We don't notice the p...

Ideas are more dangerous than an unsheathed sword in this world, half of them are forbidden, the other half would lead a man to question the very place of the earth itself, safe at the center of the u...

In truth, I did not have to wonder. She would be feeling that disturbing mixture of emotions that she always summoned from me: admiration and envy, pride and a furious rivalry, a longing to see a belo...

It is luck to love someone who is free to love you in return. But I don’t. I just desire him, desire him and desire him; and I wait for it to burn out. Everything I have ever gained has always turned...

It is luck to love someone who is free to love you in return.

It was a dance like no other, a dance of seduction. Henry did not take his blue eyes off my face, he danced toward me, stamped his foot and clapped his hands as if he would strip me naked then and the...

Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford—grandmother to the White Princess. When I started my research, there was no biography of her at all. I had to find her through her husbands, her family, and by tracing he...

My honour and my pride are in my heart, and not in what the world says.