quotes by Philippa Gregory

"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)

""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)

"The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule."
— 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)

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

"Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister."
— 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)

"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)

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

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