This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.
Philippa GregoryStichwörter: war
The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.
Philippa GregoryStichwörter: history war royalty cousins-war
Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.
Philippa GregoryStichwörter: history parenting
When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.
Philippa GregoryStichwörter: history war cousins-war unending
This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you have always thought it; it is not like a ballad. It is a muddle and a mess, and a sinful waste, and good men have died and more will follow.
Philippa GregoryStichwörter: history war death
Go with the knowledge that I will think of you every time I lift your boy from his bed, every time I kneel for my prayers, every time I order my horse, every hour of every day.
Philippa GregoryStichwörter: love
I will go to war should there ever be a cause I think worth dying for--and not before.
Philippa GregoryStichwörter: war
But the magic moment when he walks alone has not yet happened, and I was praying he would do it before I have to leave. Now he will take his first step without me. And every step thereafter, I know. Every step of his life, and me not there to see him walk.
Philippa GregoryStichwörter: history motherhood royalty
Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better please him.
Philippa GregoryStichwörter: women history marriage personhood ownership
Another husband, another new house, another new country, but I never belong anywhere and I never own anything in my own right.
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