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

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
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For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
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He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
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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.
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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
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I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future I am going to make it happen.
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One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.
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... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
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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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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.
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Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.
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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.
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Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.
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I am too dark in my heart tonight.
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We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.
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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.
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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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It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?
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