“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 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
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
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
“When we lay awake after making love I could hear the sleepy birds settling in their nests in the thatch. We had… — 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
“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
Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much. — 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
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
“A man and a woman can love each other so deeply that their hearts beat as if they were one heart, and… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“What better way could they spend the last days of the world, than falling in love?” — 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
“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
“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 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 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
“The castle will seem very quiet and strange without you here. The stone stairs and the chapel will miss your footstep, the… — 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
I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once… — 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
“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 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 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 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“When you are still and thoughtful you are as lovely as the statues they are carving in Italy.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
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 Image
You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
