“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue,… — 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
“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
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
“kinds of disguises and dance to all sorts of tunes to make myself Harry’s addiction. If he had not been fatally flawed,… — 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
“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
“In the darkness of the forest he saw her, and whispered her name, Melusina, and at that summoning she rose out of… — 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
“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
