When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Richard looks into my eyes and once again I know us for the children that we were, who had to make our… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I wil not heat treason from my own daughter What will you do behead me for treason? We are not an amry… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“You're not cursed daughter, you are the finest and rarest of all my children, the most beautiful, the most beloved. You know… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I am sorry for you. And I am sorry for me. When you are sent back to me, perhaps a month from… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“We, the daughters of Melusina,” she corrects me. “Your grandmother was a daughter of the water goddess of the royal house of… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“You are lucky in your looks,” she says. “Your mother was always a beauty and you are very like her: fair, slender,… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I am old enough to be married twice. I am old enough to be bedded without tenderness or consideration. I am old… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Jane would be the next queen and her children, when she had them, would be the next princes or princesses. Or she… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Mother, before God," I say, my voice shaking with tears, "I swear that I have to believe that there is more for me in… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share
“Say yes,’ he whispers. ‘Marry me.’ I hesitate. I open my eyes. ‘You will get my fortune,’ I remark. ‘When I marry you, everything… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share
“But I warn you that a woman who seeks great power and wealth has to pay a great price, Perhaps you will be a… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share
“I raised my hand to wave in case he looked back; but he did not. He rode straight backed, looking forward. He rode like… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share
“When you are still and thoughtful you are as lovely as the statues they are carving in Italy.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share
Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share
“We fell asleep wrapped in each other as if we could not bear to part, even in sleep we could not bear to let… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share
“One little boy, and he a bastard,' Anne said thoughtfully. 'One little girl of six, one elderly Queen and a King in the prime… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share
“We have been married little more than a year and already there is a terrible silence around some subjects. We never speak of the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share
“It doesn’t matter if you call it magic or determination. It doesn’t matter if you make a spell or a plot. You have to… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share
“I have overturned the order. Nothing will ever be the same for any woman in this country again.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share
“I will make my own future, not predict it. I don’t need a charm to tell me what I hope will happen. I throw… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share
