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

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
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I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work.
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To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
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There are many sorts of love. And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.
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Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
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I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
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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.
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Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.
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Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
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Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.
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You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
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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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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
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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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You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.
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Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.
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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.
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The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.
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When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
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