"for Harry Potter I have all the time in the world"
— Philippa Gregory

"if it means something, take it to heart. if it means nothing, its nothing. let it go."
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

""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.""
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

"You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman."
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

""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""
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

"You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition"
— Philippa Gregory

"Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister."
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

"He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin."
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

"Oh what a tragedy queen! You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth. Now sshh--here he comes."
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

"I 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 Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

""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"
"
— Philippa Gregory

""Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.""
— Philippa Gregory

"The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule."
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

"Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have. - Bess of Hardwick (THE OTHER QUEEN)"
— Philippa Gregory

""...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.""
— Philippa Gregory (The Constant Princess)

"When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.
{Mary Carey to Anne Boleyn}"
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

""if it means something, take it to heart. if it means nothing, its nothing. let it go."
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl) "
— Philippa Gregory

"''When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.'' "
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

"You must look ar her books and see if she is reading any forbidden Writing."
— Philippa Gregory

"I woke at dawn every morning to his touch, the delight of his warmth and the heady smell of his skin. I had never before lain with a man who had loved me completely, for myself, and it was a dizzy experience. I had never lain with a man whose touch I adored without any need to hide my adoration, or exaggerate it, or adjust it at all. I simply loved him as if he were my one and only lover, and he loved me too with the same simplicty of appetite and disire which made me wonder what I thought I had been doing all those years when I had been dealing in the false coin of vanity and lust. I had not known then that all along there had been this other currency of pure gold."
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

"'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' - Henry. "
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

"The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule."
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

"The truth is the last thing that matters," she said. "And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart." Queen Elizabeth I"
— Philippa Gregory (The Virgin's Lover)

"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. -Mary"
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

"Anne: Good Evening , Sir John. I hope that you will accept a little gift from me.
Sir John Seymour: I should be honored, Your Majesty.
Anne: I want to give you a little carved stool from my privy chambers. A pretty little piece from France. I hope you will like it.
Sir John Seymour: I should be grateful.
Anne: It is for your daughter. For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine."
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

"Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have. (Bess of Hardwick; The Other Queen) "
— Philippa Gregory

"Good God, what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard. It is truly amazing"
— Philippa Gregory (The Boleyn Inheritance)

"''Stars in the night,'' he said. ''Something something something something, some delight''"
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

"''we're going'' Anne said firlmy.

''So soon?'' Percy pleaded. ''But stars come out at night.''

''Then they fade at dawn'', Anne replied. ''This star needs to veil herself in darkness''"
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)