“Don't be afraid of the future, little Julia. Take your present life and live it.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman,… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I am sure your piety does you great credit, Margaret. But certainly, if God is speaking to the king, then He has… — 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
“For I am in love. For the first time in my life, utterly and completely, I have fallen in love, and I… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“It is always harder to make time for the truly precious experiences; there is always the ordinary to do.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Nothing would be the same for any woman in this country again. From this time onward no wife, however obedient, however loving,… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“He’s a young man who has lived under the shadow of the sword from the moment when he fled England as a… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“But the magic moment when he walks alone has not yet happened, and I was praying he would do it before I… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“We never look back. We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Like almost all girls I don't know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and… — 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
“For a moment I felt the terror. The deep primeval terror of something one does not understand, something which is against nature… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I will make my own future, not predict it. I don’t need a charm to tell me what I hope will happen.… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“When he saw her, the water lapping on her scales, head down in the bath he had built especially for her, thinking… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Each hour burns slowly away, although time means nothing to him now. Time is quite lost to him in his eternal darkness,… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“For the first time it strikes me that it must be hard to spend your life in exile and finally win your… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Eyes downcast, she went past me without a glance. Dismissively her gown brushed my knees as if I should have drawn further… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“He will come to trust you, perhaps,” she says. “If you have years together. You may grow to be a loving husband… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I turn around from the window and for the first time I see him... It is Richard, smiling at my surprise. I… — 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
I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“we stood for a moment, handclasped in the warm sunshine, and I thought, like a lovesick girl: “This is heaven.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“As men have to fight, women have to wait and plan. This is your time for waiting and planning, and you must… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Go with the knowledge that I will think of you every time I lift your boy from his bed, every time I… — 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
The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards… — 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
