Three Sisters, Three Queens Quotes

“You too might find that your women friends are your truest friends, your sisters are the keepers of your memories and hopes for the future.”
― Philippa Gregory, Three Sisters, Three Queens

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― Philippa Gregory, Three Sisters, Three Queens

“while the royal burghers rush to the gate and the town guard fling themselves at the bolts and then the great gates”
― Philippa Gregory, Three Sisters, Three Queens

“This is how women are treated: when they act on their own account they are named as sinners, when they enjoy success they are named as whores.”
― Philippa Gregory, Three Sisters, Three Queens

“The rules of writing history mean that a historian can only speculate about her emotions; but a novelist is allowed, indeed obliged, to re-create a version of them. This is where historical fiction—the hybrid form—does something that I find profoundly interesting—takes the historical record and turns it inside out; the inner world explains the outer record.”
― Philippa Gregory, Three Sisters, Three Queens

“There is nothing but the gleam of mysterious light—not dawn and yet not starlight—where the unlit earth meets the night-black sky, and the only sound is the haunting call of the owls.”
― Philippa Gregory, Three Sisters, Three Queens

“your sisters are the keepers of your memories and hopes for the future.”
― Philippa Gregory, Three Sisters, Three Queens

“England.”
― Philippa Gregory, Three Sisters, Three Queens

“pillion saddle on Archibald’s horse and a man-at-arms lifts”
― Philippa Gregory, Three Sisters, Three Queens