This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.
Philippa GregoryTag: war
The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.
Philippa GregoryTag: 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 GregoryWhen he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.
Philippa GregoryTag: 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 GregoryGo 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 GregoryTag: love
I will go to war should there ever be a cause I think worth dying for--and not before.
Philippa GregoryTag: 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 GregoryTag: 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 GregoryTag: 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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