Philippa Gregory Quotes - Page 4

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• ...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.

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  Ambition, Goal, Trouble

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.565, Simon and Schuster

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• When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it.

  Philippa Gregory

  Want Something, Unhappy, Desire

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.

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  Goodbye, Saying Goodbye, Ends

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• Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.

  Philippa Gregory

  Little Sister, Hem, Littles

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.561, Simon and Schuster

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• Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

  Philippa Gregory

  Thinking, People, Novelists

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• I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

  Philippa Gregory

  Interesting, Historical, Fiction

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• I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.

  Philippa Gregory

  Summer, Country, Couple

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• Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.

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  Stepmothers, Stepchildren, Stepchild

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• I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.

  Philippa Gregory

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Jane," I said quietly. She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer. "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying." "If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.

  Philippa Gregory

  Kings, Prayer, Eye

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.582, Simon and Schuster

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• The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.

  Philippa Gregory

  Men, World, Changed

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• He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.

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  Brother, My Brother, My Sister

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.464, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.

  Philippa Gregory

  Baby, Indifferent, Kate

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• Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.

  Philippa Gregory

  Helping, Sometimes

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.

  Philippa Gregory

  Son, Devil, Plot

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The White Queen”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

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  Believe, Heart, Matter

  Philippa Gregory (2004). “The Virgin's Lover”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would always be a different being from him, listening to a different music, hearing a different sound, familiar with a different element.

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  Men, Thinking, Air

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• And – I think you know, don’t you? – that I love you, Anne.’ I feel as if I have been living in a loveless world for too long. The last tender face I saw was my father’s when he sailed for England. ‘You do? Truly?’ ‘I do.’ He rises to his feet and pulls me up to stand beside him. My chin comes to his shoulder, we are both dainty, long-limbed, coltish: well-matched. I turn my face into his jacket. ‘Will you marry me?’ he whispers. ‘Yes,’ I say.

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  Father, Love You, Thinking

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• ...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.

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  Doubt, Moved On, Have Faith

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• When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.

  Philippa Gregory

  Snakes, Namesake

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• I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.

  Philippa Gregory

  Dream, Teaching, People

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