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You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
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Smile
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But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
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When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
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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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To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
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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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For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
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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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Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.
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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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Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
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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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Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.
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I am too dark in my heart tonight.
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But Anne, do you love him? I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.
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Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.
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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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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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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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I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.
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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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