“on what he wants to say. I step back. So it is just as his wife fears, and she was” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“My advice to you, as you go to your husband, is never to trust him and never love him more than he… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“And all I want to hear are the sweetest words in the world, when he says: “Bed, Wife.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Another husband, another new house, another new country, but I never belong anywhere and I never own anything in my own right.” — 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… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I say nothing, not one word, from beginning to end, and neither does he. If it were lawful for a woman to… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they… — 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
“Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“As my wife you cannot refuse me. I have a right to you, as your betrothed husband. From now, till your death,… — 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
“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 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
“Makes no difference,” he said, with his intuitive knowledge of my thoughts. “No difference at all how your first marriage was. This… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“She prayed while you were raping me?” I ask him. “It isn’t rape,” he says. “Stop saying that. You’re a fool to… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“He is smiling proudly, his face flushed, thinking that she is enjoying the sight of her son, her adored only son, in… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“All this is always for nothing," he says. "Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should… — 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
“And it seems to me that there is nothing more likely to cure a woman of lust than marriage. Now I understand… — 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
“It matters not at all that I do not want to marry, that I am afraid of the wedding, afraid of consummating… — 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
“We have been married little more than a year and already there is a terrible silence around some subjects. We never speak… — 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
“It is hard to tell the story of Elizabeth of York without her farbetter-known husband, Henry VII, as the hero. Henry himself,… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“There was I, fool that I am, thinking that you were being loving to me,” he says shortly. “I thought you were… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Like many women, she was unable to fit exactly with her husband’s view. Her feet hurt: she could not walk in the… — 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
“It seems that we have to be married,” he says, a harder note coming into his voice. “I am honored by the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“She smiles. “You know you can do nothing. What will be, will be. If there is a battle”—I gasp but her smile… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“The stewards, and then the bailiffs, and then finally the lawyers meet. They wrangle, they agree, and we are to be married… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Dear god, I am only twenty seven, my cause is defeated, my husband is dead. am I to be one of the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I was near to delighted laughter because Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Margaret...you must know that you could never change your own life. You are a girl: girls have no choice. You could never… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Last time I danced in these rooms it was the Christmas feast and I was wearing a dress of silk as rich… — 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
