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  1. Philippa Gregory _ The Other Boleyn Girl

    I suddenly realized that George was wrong, and 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.
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  2. Philippa Gregory _ The Other Boleyn Girl

    He is my brother," I said. "I cannot desert him.""You can go to your own death," William said. "Or you can survive this, bring up your children, and guard Anne's little girl who will be shamed and bastardized and motherless by the end of this week. You can wait out this reign and see what comes next. See what the future holds for the Princess Elizabeth, defend our son Henry against those who will want to set him up as the king's heir or even worse-flaunt him as a pretender. You owe it to your children to protect them.
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  3. Philippa Gregory _ The Other Boleyn Girl

    I have not slept for nights. I have not eaten for days. I am a soul in torment. Tell me if you think that she loves me, if you think that she might love me. Tell me, for pity's sake.
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  4. Philippa Gregory _ The Other Boleyn Girl

    When we lay awake after making love I could hear the sleepy birds settling in their nests in the thatch. We had a little pallet bed, a table and two stools, a fireplace where we warmed up our dinner from the palace, and nothing more. We wanted nothing more.
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  5. Philippa Gregory _ The Other Boleyn Girl

    we stood for a moment, handclasped in the warm sunshine, and I thought, like a lovesick girl: "This is heaven.
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  6. Philippa Gregory _ The Other Boleyn Girl

    There is no freedom for women in this world, fight or not as you like. See where Anne has brought herself.
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  7. Philippa Gregory _ The Other Boleyn Girl

    It felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition-the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress, and us to this savage battle.
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  8. Philippa Gregory _ The Other Boleyn Girl

    I would rather see you dead at my feet than dishonored.
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  9. Philippa Gregory _ The Other Boleyn Girl

    And it was Anne who was before the table like a prisoner before the bar. She did not stand with her head bowed as I always did. Anne stood with her head high, one dark eyebrow slightly raised, and she met my uncle's glare as if she were his equal.
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  10. Philippa Gregory _ The Other Boleyn Girl

    Makes no difference," he said, with his intuitive knowledge of my thoughts. "No difference at all how your first marriage was. This is my marriage, and I want my wife in my bed." I laughed aloud and snuggled back into his arms. "It's where I want to be," I confessed. "Why would I ever want to be anywhere else?
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  11. Philippa Gregory _ The Other Boleyn Girl

    You've always been one of many," she said brutally. "There are dozens of us Howard girls, all with good breeding, all well taught, all pretty, all young, all fertile. They can throw one after another on the table and see if one is lucky. It's no real loss to them if one after another is taken up and then thrown aside. There's always another Howard girl conceived, there's always another whore in the nursery. You were one of many before you were even born. If he does not cleave to you then you go back to William, they find another Howard girl to tempt him, and the dance starts all over again.
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  12. Philippa Gregory _ The Other Boleyn Girl

    I'm a lady. It's none of it mine. Look at you. You're doing well enough-is your wife a rich woman?" He chuckled sheepishly at that. "She's my wife. She does as well as I do. But she doesn't own anything of her own." "It's the same for me," I said. "I do as my father does, as my husband does. I dress as is proper for their wife or their daughter. But I don't own anything on my own account. In that sense I am as poor as your wife." "But you are a Howard and I am a nobody," he observed. "I'm a Howard woman. That means I might be one of the greatest in the land or a nobody like you. It all depends." "On what?" he asked, intrigued. I thought of the sudden darkening of Henry's face when I displeased him. "On my luck.
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