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The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3) QUOTES

The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3) QUOTES

1 " This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you have always thought it; it is not like a ballad. It is a muddle and a mess, and a sinful waste, and good men have died and more will follow. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

2 " The baby should always be saved in preference to the mother. That is the advice of the Holy Church, you know that. I was only reminding women of their duty. There is no need to make everything so personal, Margaret. You make everything into your own tragedy. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

3 " When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

4 " My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

5 " Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better please him. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

6 " But the magic moment when he walks alone has not yet happened, and I was praying he would do it before I have to leave. Now he will take his first step without me. And every step thereafter, I know. Every step of his life, and me not there to see him walk. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

7 " If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon torment like this. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

8 " Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

9 " I will learn to smile at my enemies. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

10 " Yes, Your Grace," I correct her. "I am My Lady, the King's Mother, now, and you shall curtsey to me, as low as to a queen of royal blood. This was my destiny: to put my son on the throne of England, and those who laughed at my visions and doubted my vocation will call me My Lady, the King's Mother, and I shall sign myself Margaret Regina: Margaret R. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

11 " Some of us are born to a solitary life. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

12 " Men die in battle; women die in childbirth. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

13 " I have to say that I am much less impressed by crucifixion now that I am in childbirth. It is really not possible that anything could hurt more than this. I grieve for the suffering of Our Lord, of course. But if He had tried a bad birth He would know what pain is. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

14 " I am old enough to be married twice. I am old enough to be bedded without tenderness or consideration. I am old enough to face death in the confinement room and be told that my own mother--my own mother--has commanded them to save the child and not me! I think I am a woman now. I have a babe in arms, and I have been married and widowed and now bethrothed again. I am like a draper's parcel to be sent about like cloth and cut to the pattern that people wish. My mother told me that my father died by his own hand and that we are an unlucky family. I think I am a woman now! I am treated as a woman grown when it suits you all, you can hardly make me a child again. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

15 " Insane", he says simply. "Hopeless. The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son his a devil and should not. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

16 " Poor little girl. Poor little girl," Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me, a girl of thirteen years, whose own mother has said that they can let her die as long as a son and heir is born. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

17 " He must desire the scent of the smoke of their sacrifice. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

18 " I think it is unkind of me to stand there with my hands by my sides and a frown on my face. But I let him go without a blown kiss, without a blessing, without a command to come back safely. I let him go without a word or a gesture of love, for he is going out to fight for my enemy and so he is my enemy now. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

19 " A troubadour to a distant mistress. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)

20 " Another husband, another new house, another new country, but I never belong anywhere and I never own anything in my own right. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Red Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #3)