Philippa Gregory Quotes - Page 4

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• True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.

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  Thinking, Agreement, Waiting

  Philippa Gregory (2006). “The Constant Princess”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

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  Rivals, Born, Said

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

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  Passion, Desire, Needs

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.443, Simon and Schuster

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• But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.

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  Heart, Half, England

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.147, 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.

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  Want Something, Unhappy, Desire

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

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• I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle.

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  Ambition, Fighting, Insane

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, Your Grace," I correct her. "I am My Lady, the King's Mother, now, and you shall curtsey to me, as low as to a queen of royal blood. This was my destiny: to put my son on the throne of England, and those who laughed at my visions and doubted my vocation will call me My Lady, the King's Mother, and I shall sign myself Margaret Regina: Margaret R.

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  Mother, Kings, Queens

  Philippa Gregory (2010). “The Red Queen: A Novel”, p.377, Simon and Schuster

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• He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

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  Latin, Speaks French, Half

  Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Some women attract desire. Others do not.

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  Desire

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.

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  Done, Knows

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• In Spain," indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.

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  Stupid, Spain, Puppy

  Philippa Gregory (2006). “The Constant Princess”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.

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  Passion, Men, Sweat

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.443, Simon and Schuster

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• For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.

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  Potters, World, Dharma Bums

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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.

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  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.

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  Kings, Prayer, Eye

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

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

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  Baby, Indifferent, Kate

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

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  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.

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  Son, Devil, Plot

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The White Queen”, p.326, 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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• I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.

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  Dream, Teaching, People

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