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“It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.”

Philippa Gregory kniha The Boleyn Inheritance

“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.”

Philippa Gregory kniha The Virgin's Lover

“Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.”

Philippa Gregory kniha 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.”

Philippa Gregory kniha The Other Queen

“The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.”

Philippa Gregory kniha The White Queen

“Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.”

Philippa Gregory kniha The Other Boleyn Girl

“Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.”

Philippa Gregory kniha The Other Boleyn Girl

“We're going' Anne said firmly.
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 kniha The Other Boleyn Girl

“En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.”

Philippa Gregory kniha The Other Queen

“Some women attract desire. Others do not.”

Philippa Gregory kniha The Other Boleyn Girl

“When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.”

Philippa Gregory kniha The Other Boleyn Girl

“When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.”

Philippa Gregory kniha The Other Boleyn Girl

“All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.”

Philippa Gregory kniha The Lady of the Rivers

“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.”

Philippa Gregory kniha The Other Boleyn Girl

“If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.”

Philippa Gregory kniha The Boleyn Inheritance

“Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.”

Philippa Gregory kniha The Red Queen