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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?

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
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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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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'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.
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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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When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
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Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
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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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Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.
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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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We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.
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Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
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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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To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
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Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
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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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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 am too dark in my heart tonight.
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