For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
Philippa GregoryYou can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.
Philippa GregoryI 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.
Philippa GregoryTags: love
Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
Philippa GregoryThe world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.
Philippa GregoryTags: politics
He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
Philippa GregoryIf it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.
Philippa GregoryYou have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
Philippa GregoryI had meant my promise to George. I had said that I was, before anything else, a Boleyn and a Howard through and through; but now, sitting in th shadowy room, looking out over the gray slates of the city, and up at the dark clouds leaning on the roof of Westminster Palace, I suddenly realized that George was wrong, and that my family was wrong, and that I had been wrong-- for all my life. I was not a Howard before anything else. Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love, I didn't want the rewards for which Anne had surrendered her youth. I didn' want the arid glamour of George's life, 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.
Philippa GregoryJane," 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.
Tags: threat flirt henry-viii jane-seymour mary-boleyn
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