01c. 1954 ADThey are girls to whom things happen, and they take it hard. But I bear myself as more than a silly girl. 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 newly won crown, and no man will ever walk away from me certain that he won’t walk back.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
02c. 1954 ADI 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.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
03c. 1954 ADAh, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
04c. 1954 ADI am so tired; all I want to do is sleep. I want to sleep all the day, from dawn until twilight that every evening comes a little earlier and a little more drearily. In the daytime, all I can think about is sleeping. But in the night I do is try to stay awake.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
05c. 1954 ADI had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
06c. 1954 ADI 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 tawny hair on his forehead?Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
07c. 1954 ADI prayed in silence that perhaps even now, the queen might have a son and might know joy like this, such a strange, unexpected joy- the happiness of caring for a child whose whole life was in my hands.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
08c. 1954 ADBut the magic moment when he walks alone has not yet happened, and I was praying he would do it before I have to leave. Now he will take his first step without me. And every step thereafter, I know. Every step of his life, and me not there to see him walk.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
09c. 1954 ADDaniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the word. And now that I am a woman grown, I know that I love you and I want this son of yours, and our children who will come. I have seen a woman break her heart for love: my Queen Mary. I have seen another break her soul to avoid it: my Princess Elizabeth. I don't want to be Mary or Elizabeth, I want to be me: Hannah Verde Carpenter.""And we shall live somewhere that we can follow our belifs without danger," he insisted."Yes," I said, "in the England that Elizabeth will make.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
10c. 1954 ADThis is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
11c. 1954 ADAny woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
12c. 1954 ADAnd now I want love. Lust is no good for me. I want love. His love.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
13c. 1954 ADAnd now I wnt love. Lust is no good for me. I want love. His love.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
14c. 1954 ADAnd then the sword came down like a flash of lightning, and then her head was off her body and the long rivalry between me and the other Boleyn girl was over.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
15c. 1954 ADI 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 aboutPhilippa Gregory / quote ↗
16c. 1954 ADI was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
17c. 1954 ADBefore anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
18c. 1954 ADI realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
20c. 1954 ADOnce more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
21c. 1954 ADIf this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon torment like this.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
22c. 1954 ADI am fit to capture a unicorn, and I should not be so questioned.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
23c. 1954 ADMy father says there are more than twenty thousand turned out for the king. It seems that most men think that we will win, that York will be captured and killed, though the king in his tender heart has said he will forgive them all if they will surrender.~Will there be another battle?~Unless York decides he cannot face the king in person. It is one sort of sin to kill your friends and cousins, quite another to order your bowmen to fire at the king's banner and him beneath it. What if the king is killed in battle? What if York brings his broadsword down on the king's sanctified head?Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
24c. 1954 ADPlainly, 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.Philippa Gregory / quote ↗
