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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Delight
Bird
Desire
Easy
Sings

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Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
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Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
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I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?
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For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
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Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.
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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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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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To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
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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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Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
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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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He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
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But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
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If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.
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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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I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.
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En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
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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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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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