01UndatedHe 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.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
02UndatedI 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.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
03UndatedI 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.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
05UndatedI have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
06UndatedDo you not think that God will protect us?”“No,” he said flatly. “My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
07UndatedThe 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.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
08UndatedWhen they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
09UndatedWe'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.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
10UndatedHe had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
11UndatedPoor little girl. Poor little girl," Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me, a girl of thirteen years, whose own mother has said that they can let her die as long as a son and heir is born.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
12UndatedThis 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.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
13UndatedStars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delightPhilippa Gregory / quote ↗
15UndatedThe 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.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
16UndatedI have heard ballads of great battles, and poems about the beauty of a charge and the grace of a leader. But I did not know that war was nothing more than butchery, as savage and unskilled as sticking a pig in the throat and leaving it to bleed to make the meat tender. I did not know that the style and nobility of the jousting arena had nothing to do with this thrust and stab. Just like killing a screaming piglet for bacon after chasing it round the sty. And I did not know that war thrilled men so: they come home laughing like schoolboys after a prank; but they have blood on their hands and a smear of something on their cloaks and the smell of smoke in their hair and a terrible ugly excitement on their faces.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 did not know war was like this. I feel I have been a fool not to know, since I was raised in a kingdom at war and am the daughter of a man captured in battle, the widow of a night, the wife of a merciless solider. But I know now.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
17UndatedThe king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
18UndatedWhen he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
19UndatedWar does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
21UndatedEdward 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.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
22UndatedI do think your brother grows more peculiar every day,' I complain to Edward when he comes to my rooms in Whitehall Palace to escort me to dinner.'Which one?' he asks lazily. 'For you know I can do nothing right in the eyes of either. You would think they would be glad to have a York on the throne and peace in Christendom, and one of the finest Christmas feasts we have ever arranged; but no: Richard is leaving court to go back north as soon as the feast is over, to demonstrate his outrage that we are not slogging away in a battle with the French, and George is simply bad tempered.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
23UndatedHe is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
24UndatedEverything that highly educated men can do to obscure a simple truth, to make a woman doubt her feelings, to make her own thoughts a muddle, they do to her. They use their learning as a hurdle to herd her one way and then the other and then finally trap her in contradictions of which she can make no sense.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
