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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
Philippa Gregory
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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
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Kenya's capital
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I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.
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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 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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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 would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
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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 am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
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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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Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.
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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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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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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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Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.
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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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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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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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...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.
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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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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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