Robin

“I believe that a desire and a prayer and a spell are all the same thing,” I say. “When you pray, you know that you want something, that’s always the first step. To let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. Sometimes that’s the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it. And sometimes you have to find courage to know that it was your folly or your wrongdoing which lost it; before you make a spell to bring it back, you have to change yourself. That’s one of the deepest transformations that can be.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers

“I don’t ask for more than a smile and to be in your prayers. I love from afar.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Red Queen

“She tried to live like an ordinary woman; but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways; but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man’s world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man’s drum.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers

“Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers