Philippa Gregory citations

“But I don't forget and I don't forgive.”

“When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.”

“For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.”

“You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.”

“If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.”

“He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.”

“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.”

“I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.”

“A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.”

“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.”

“The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.”

“Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.”

“Jane," I said quietly.
She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer.
"Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying."
"If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.”

“I have given my word that only death will take me from you.”

“Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.”

“You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise… guided by your own virtue and highest ambition”

“I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.”

“Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.”

“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?”

“He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.”

“He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?”

“Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.”

“I am too dark in my heart tonight.”

“Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your rights.”

“I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?”

“I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help.”

“I have learned the power of surviving.”

“The wheel of fortune […] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.”

“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.”