Philippa Gregory Quotes - Page 3

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.

...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.

I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York’s broodmare.” I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. “You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn’t that sin?” His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. “I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful,” - Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville -

Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.

I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.

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

We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

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

Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.

But I don't forget and I don't forgive.

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

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

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?

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.

One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.

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 felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle.

She is Melusina, the water goddess, and she is found in hidden springs and waterfalls in any forest in Christendom, even in those as far away as Greece. (...) A man may love her if he keeps her secret and lets her alone when she wants to bathe, and she may love him in return until he breaks his word, as men always do, and she sweeps him into the depths with her fishy tail, and turns his faithless blood to water. The tragedy of Melusina, whatever language tells it, whatever tune it sings, is that a man will always promise more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

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

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.

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.

I am too dark in my heart tonight.