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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.

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 71
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Lived
Darkness
Seen
Woman
Rejection
Death
Longing
Never
Despair
Life
Worse
Like
Constant

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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
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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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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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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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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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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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He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
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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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En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
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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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