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1 " He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do. "
― Philippa Gregory , The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
2 " 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. "
3 " I do think your brother grows more peculiar every day,' I complain to Edward when he comes to my rooms in Whitehall Palace to escort me to dinner.'Which one?' he asks lazily. 'For you know I can do nothing right in the eyes of either. You would think they would be glad to have a York on the throne and peace in Christendom, and one of the finest Christmas feasts we have ever arranged; but no: Richard is leaving court to go back north as soon as the feast is over, to demonstrate his outrage that we are not slogging away in a battle with the French, and George is simply bad tempered. "
4 " I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York’s broodmare.”I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. “You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn’t that sin?”His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. “I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful. "
5 " This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years. "
6 " A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand. "
7 " But I don't forget and I don't forgive. "
8 " If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other. "
9 " 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. "
10 " For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would always be a different being from him, listening to a different music, hearing a different sound, familiar with a different element. "
11 " the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it "
12 " To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself. "
13 " The law is what powerful men say it shall be. "
14 " It’s a fool who is afraid of nothing,” I say. “And a brave man is one who knows fear and rides out and faces it. "
15 " Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends. "
16 " We have to be more royal than royalty itself or nobody will believe us. "
17 " I am not a yard of ribbon. I am not a leg of ham. I am not for sale to anyone. "
18 " And I am much attached to my cock, brother. Make sure your sister can put another prince in the cradle, he says baldly. Save my balls for her, Anthony! "
19 " Nothing in the world matter more than life. You have a long road to walk and a lot of lessons to learn if you don't know that. "
20 " He may make me feel like a fool, and like a woman who can do nothing, but what I can do I will. In my jewellery box is a dark locket of black tarnished silver and inside it locked in the darkness, I have his name: Richard Neville and that of George, Duke of Clarence, written in my blood on a piece of paper from the corner of my father's last letter. These are my enemies, I have cursed them. I will see them dead at my feet. "
