“What better way could they spend the last days of the world, than falling in love?” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“What a test of love it is, when the beloved is less than perfect.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Affection is not important to you, nor to me. You want power Margaret, power and wealth; and so do I. Nothing matters… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“But I want to be loved. I have always been loved. I want my husband to love me with a passion, like… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Before God, I love you and cherish you more than anything in the world. Of course I want to marry you. I… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Either you have me or not at all. Either you love me or not at all. Either I am all yours or… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“You don't need to struggle, your baby is coming. Help him come to us, open your body and let him come into… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“His little gestures of affection, his hand in the small of her aching back, her head brushing his shoulder. When she was… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“The tears in my eyes are now running down my cheeks at the thought that I have been his wife and his… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence,… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
For instance, I have never believed that there is only one person for each person in the world. It doesn't make the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I think it is unkind of me to stand there with my hands by my sides and a frown on my face.… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“It is luck to love someone who is free to love you in return. But I don’t. I just desire him, desire… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I do not grieve for him as a wife, as Anne Devereux has grieved for her husband William Herbert. She promised him… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Say yes,’ he whispers. ‘Marry me.’ I hesitate. I open my eyes. ‘You will get my fortune,’ I remark. ‘When I marry… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Richard told me I was the most beautiful girl that had ever been born, that one glance from me set him on… — 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
“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
“When I was first at court and he was the young husband of a beautiful wife, he was a golden king. They… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
And – I think you know, don’t you? – that I love you, Anne.’ I feel as if I have been living… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I sit on the bed and kick off my shoes, and he kneels before me and takes the riding boots, holding one… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I cannot know what the future will bring us," he says in a rapid undertone. "I cannot know where you will be… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“As he catches my eye he beams at me, his dark face bright with affection. Anyone can see it who cares to… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I think nobody in the whole world knows what it is to be in love, to be so beloved.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I look up into his face and catch a glimpse of an emotion I never expected to see. His hazel eyes are… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“But a good man wouldn't marry you for fortune, and perhaps you shouldn't choose such as one as that." "Shouldn't I?" "A… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“In a world where women were bought and sold as horses I had found a man I loved; and married for love.… — 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
