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The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9) QUOTES

The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9) QUOTES

1 " I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

2 " 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. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

3 " When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

4 " 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 , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

5 " He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

6 " Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

7 " Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

8 " I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we? "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

9 " 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 , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

10 " You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

11 " If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

12 " The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

13 " I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

14 " I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us? "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

15 " He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

16 " I am too dark in my heart tonight. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

17 " Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

18 " I woke at dawn every morning to his touch, the delight of his warmth and the heady smell of his skin. I had never before lain with a man who had loved me completely, for myself, and it was a dizzy experience. I had never lain with a man whose touch I adored without any need to hide my adoration, or exaggerate it, or adjust it at all. I simply loved him as if he were my one and only lover, and he loved me too with the same simplicty of appetite and disire which made me wonder what I thought I had been doing all those years when I had been dealing in the false coin of vanity and lust. I had not known then that all along there had been this other currency of pure gold. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

19 " Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your rights. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)

20 " I had meant my promise to George. I had said that I was, before anything else, a Boleyn and a Howard through and through; but now, sitting in th shadowy room, looking out over the gray slates of the city, and up at the dark clouds leaning on the roof of Westminster Palace, I suddenly realized that George was wrong, and that my family was wrong, and that I had been wrong-- for all my life. I was not a Howard before anything else. Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love, I didn't want the rewards for which Anne had surrendered her youth. I didn' want the arid glamour of George's life, I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)