You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition Philippa Gregory More Quotes by Philippa Gregory More Quotes From Philippa Gregory They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man. Philippa Gregory motherbeautifulmen Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the word. And now that I am a woman grown, I know that I love you and I want this son of yours, and our children who will come. I have seen a woman break her heart for love: my Queen Mary. I have seen another break her soul to avoid it: my Princess Elizabeth. I don't want to be Mary or Elizabeth, I want to be me: Hannah Verde Carpenter." "And we shall live somewhere that we can follow our belifs without danger," he insisted. "Yes," I said, "in the England that Elizabeth will make. Philippa Gregory princessqueenschildren 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. Philippa Gregory insanefightingambition He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne. Philippa Gregory belovedtakenself Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him. Philippa Gregory tricksmen I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things. Philippa Gregory teachingdreampeople Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see. Philippa Gregory helpingsometimes 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. Philippa Gregory airmenthinking Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly. Philippa Gregory wisemenmean I turn around from the window and for the first time I see him... It is Richard, smiling at my surprise. I run to him, without thinking what I am doing. I run to the first friendly face that I have seen since Christmas, and in a moment I am in his arms and he is holding me tightly and kissing my face, my closed eyes, my smiling mouth, kissing me till I am breathless and have to pull away from him. Philippa Gregory kissingeyerunning You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth. Philippa Gregory threeearthheart Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman. Philippa Gregory falling-in-lovegirlloss But I don't forget and I don't forgive. Philippa Gregory forgivingforget She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her. Philippa Gregory betrayeddaughtermother We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family. Philippa Gregory englandqueensmight I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire. Philippa Gregory dreamsleepheart En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning. Philippa Gregory commencementfinsends I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love. Philippa Gregory my-true-loveknows Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight Philippa Gregory delightstarsnight We're going' Anne said firmly. So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.' Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness. Philippa Gregory starsdarknessnight
