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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
Easy
Sings
Delight
Bird
Desire

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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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He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
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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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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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But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
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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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He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
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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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...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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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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Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
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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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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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Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
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I am too dark in my heart tonight.
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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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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
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I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.
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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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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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