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I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman.
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I am a queen" she observes. "It is natural that men are going to gather round me, hoping for a smile.
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I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?
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I would rather see you dead at my feet than dishonored.
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When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.
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It is always harder to make time for the truly precious experiences; there is always the ordinary to do.
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Don't waste your courage on hating him. Keep yourself to yourself. And keep up your courage.
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Have learned that the most precious thing is a place where you can be as you are, where someone can see you as your true self.
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I don't want to help, I want to hinder. I adore your hair, I like to see it loose.
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She's like an anchor that he has forgotten, but still it keeps him steady.
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And now I want love. Lust is no good for me. I want love. His love.
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When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.
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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.
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I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.
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We were a quartet of idiots trying to look suave.
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A steady love, a faithful love, a wife's love is the best.
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Scowling with worry. Come at once, he's
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Much commented on. I have three new hoods to match, which
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I like writing historical fiction.
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I think my heart has broken, but I have offered the fragments to God.
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of the palace to inform me that Lady Margaret
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Never see them again. Surely, a couple so young, so
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Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.
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It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What'd you choose to do with yours?
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If He were not God, then one would think it very badly planned.
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I knew that I was smiling her smile, that she was a dark mirror to me.
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I try to go to the gym three times a week, and I swim, too.
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Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
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Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.
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I will learn to smile at my enemies.
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Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.
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King himself is as sunny as the mornings. He declares that he is well again, much better,
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This child could not command a pet dove.Harsh but true, lol! — Philippa Gregory
Grief had refined her girlish prettiness, she had the clear decided looks of a woman who had seen her hopes destroyed.
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I have overturned the order. Nothing will ever be the same for any woman in this country again.
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Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart.
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People always make up stories about princesses. It comes to us with the crown. We have to carry it as lightly as we can.
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He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
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Personally, I don't think that having a water goddess for an ancestress is a guarantee of freedom against seasickness, nor come to that, shipwreck.
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Dinner was a meal where good manners overlaid discomfort.
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He pauses, his smile warm. "I
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supposed to live a
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Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.
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She has a smile that grows slowly and then shines, like an angel's smile.
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The common people only see weakness where there is greatness of spirit.
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I had a small looking glass on the wall and I stood before it and gazed at my own reflection.
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There is nothing that sickens a country more than its own people fighting against one another. It destroys families; it is killing us daily.
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She's a Boleyn and a Howard,"I said frankly."Underneath the great name, we 're all bitches on heat.
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He was such a happy boy, and happiness is not memorable.
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The scene had been a nightmare, one of those insane nightmares where the most normal objects become infinitely menacing.
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She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life.
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You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise ... guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
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I am fit to capture a unicorn, and I should not be so questioned ...
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But to tell you the truth, it is the same for me. I am as envious of her as she is of me. But I have seen her rise and rise.
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He treats her as if he would spare her any fatigue, as if he has dedicated his life to her happiness.
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A single man's imperfect conscience can never be superior to centuries of tradition.
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But I want to be loved. I have always been loved. I want my husband to love me with a passion, like in a troubadour tale, like a knight.
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The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.
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He bares his yellow teeth in a smile at me. 'Everyone is always our enemy,' he says. 'But right now, we are winning.
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How should I forget them? They are around me like wasps around a honeypot.
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He has lost his print upon the earth; he has lost any fire.
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Discover new countries, and bring back wealth. My work is closer to home. I build, I establish,
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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.
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We fell asleep wrapped in each other as if we could not bear to part, even in sleep we could not bear to let each other go.
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At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.
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I don't shop as much as a lot of people but I do like designer clothes.
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Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight
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I believe that to be a free woman is to be both passionate and intelligent; and I am a free woman at last.
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Them till the very last moment, and then what did I do but protect the family from
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For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
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I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.
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For who could resist a woman who could fall from being queen to commoner and yet still carry herself as if greatness was within?
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Any ninny with an honest heart, a scheming family, and an open purse can do that.
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My honour and my pride are in my heart, and not in what the world says.
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One never gets the same summer twice.
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She can speak three languages, but she can tell the truth in none of them.
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It's as if our name is both our greatest pride and our curse," I say.
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I was born to be Queen of England and mother of the next King of England. I have to fulfill my destiny, it is my God-given destiny.
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I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
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All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
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This is the greatest
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They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.
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He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
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I will go to war should there ever be a cause I think worth dying forand not before. — Philippa Gregory
If it means something to you,then take it to heart. If it means nothing, it means nothing, let it go.
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Insane", he says simply. "Hopeless. The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son his a devil and should not.
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When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.
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Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.
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Jane had gone to pray for the dead queen, Anne would dance on her grave. The
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I don't think your God has ever advised you otherwise. You hear only what you want. He only ever commands your preferences.
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What better way could they spend the last days of the world, than falling in love?
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She was like a mother to me ... and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.
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If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.
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I am marrying the finest man I have ever known." "It will cost you dear," he warns. "It would be worse to lose him.
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I don't much like Singapore. It's very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you get a sense of the history.
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Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.
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Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.
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Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.
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