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Book: The Lady of the Rivers
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Philippa Gregory _ The Lady of the Rivers
A man and a woman can love each other so deeply that their hearts beat as if they were one heart, and yet, at the same time, know that they are utterly hopelessly different.
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Philippa Gregory _ The Lady of the Rivers
She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways, but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man's world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man's drum. Do you understand?
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Philippa Gregory _ The Lady of the Rivers
Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision, and they cannot tolerate any other.
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Philippa Gregory _ The Lady of the Rivers
She tried to live like an ordinary woman; but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways; but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man's world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man's drum.
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Philippa Gregory _ The Lady of the Rivers
all that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing."
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Philippa Gregory _ The Lady of the Rivers
she was a water goddess who came out of the river to marry the first duke, but she couldn't be a mortal woman. She comes back to cry for the loss of her children." "And when have you heard her?" "The night that my baby sister died. I heard something. And I knew at once that it was Melusina." "But how did you know it was her?" the other maid whispers, afraid of being excluded from the conversation. I shrug, and Joan smiles in recognition of truths that cannot be explained. "I just knew," I say. "It was as if I recognized her voice. As if I had always known it." "That's true. You just know," Joan nods. "But how do
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Philippa Gregory _ The Lady of the Rivers
saddle, brushes down my gown, hands me my hat,"
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Philippa Gregory _ The Lady of the Rivers
To let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. Sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it. And sometimes you have to find courage to know that it was your folly or your wrongdoing which lost it; before you make a spell to bring it back, you have to change yourself. That's one of the deepest transformations that can be.
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Philippa Gregory _ The Lady of the Rivers
the wedding should be between him, his bride, and God.
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Philippa Gregory _ The Lady of the Rivers
I am happy; I am in his arms, my face crushed against his padded jacket, his arms around me as tight as a bear, so that I cannot breathe. When I look up into his beloved weary face, he kisses me so hard that I close my eyes and think myself a besotted girl again. I catch a breath, and he kisses me some more.
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Philippa Gregory _ The Lady of the Rivers
I have to tell you, you have to know: I have loved you honorably as a knight should do his lady, and I have loved you passionately as a man might a woman; and now, before I leave you, I want to tell you that I love you, I love you-
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Philippa Gregory _ The Lady of the Rivers
who are sent to
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