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  1. Philippa Gregory _ The Boleyn Inheritance

    We are two women who have recognised that we cannot control the world. We are players in this game but we do not choose our own moves. The men will play us for their own desires. All we can do is try to survive whatever happens next.
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  2. Philippa Gregory _ The Boleyn Inheritance

    them till the very last moment, and then what did I do but protect the family from
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  3. Philippa Gregory _ The Boleyn Inheritance

    His little gestures of affection, his hand in the small of her aching back, her head brushing his shoulder. When she was with child, she used to cling to him for comfort, and he was always tender with her.
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  4. Philippa Gregory _ The Boleyn Inheritance

    A steady love, a faithful love, a wife's love is the best.
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  5. Philippa Gregory _ The Boleyn Inheritance

    If it is to be done at all, it must be done with grace."
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  6. Philippa Gregory _ The Boleyn Inheritance

    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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  7. Philippa Gregory _ The Boleyn Inheritance

    And those people like my grandmother, who are so free with their insults and their slaps, who say that it is a tremendous honor and a fine step up for a ninny like me, might well consider that a fool can be jumped up, but a fool can also be thrown down; and who is going to catch me then?
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  8. Philippa Gregory _ The Boleyn Inheritance

    never see them again. Surely, a couple so young, so
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  9. Philippa Gregory _ The Boleyn Inheritance

    I want to teach him his prayers and his letters and his manners. I want him for my own. Not just because he is motherless, but because I am childless and I want someone to love.
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  10. Philippa Gregory _ The Boleyn Inheritance

    She looks down at the ground to hide her smile of pleasure and to affect modesty, but when the dance brings them together and she takes his hand, her eyes come up to him and they gaze at each other with absolute longing."
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  11. Philippa Gregory _ The Boleyn Inheritance

    If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace
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  12. Philippa Gregory _ The Boleyn Inheritance

    I can't think why men would believe that it is a better world where something beautiful is destroyed and something broken left in its place.
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