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  1. Philippa Gregory _ The White Princess

    D'you think I can't write this and get someone-a drunk married to a fool -to swear to it? Do you think I can't sey up as historian? As storyteller? D'you think I can't write a history which years from now everyone will believe as the truth? I am the king. Who shall write the record of my reign if not me?'You can say anything you like' I say levelly. 'Of course you can. You're King of England. But it doesn't make it true.
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  2. Philippa Gregory _ The White Princess

    She would have come to me if she could, she would have blessed this baby as she blessed all the others. I had a hard confinement without her here and I expect to miss her for the rest of my life. This baby came into the world just as my mother left it, and so I am naming her for my mother. And I can tell you this-I am absolutely sure that a Tudor Elizabeth is going to be one of the greatest monarchs that England has ever seen.
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  3. Philippa Gregory _ The White Princess

    Walk through your sorrow, my daughter, it hardly matters as long as you walk to where you want to be.
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  4. Philippa Gregory _ The White Princess

    she taught me that there is nothing in the world more powerful than a woman who knows what she wants and walks a straight road towards it. "It doesn't matter if you call it magic or determination. It doesn't matter if you make a spell or a plot. You have to make up your mind what you want, and have the courage to set your heart on it.
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  5. Philippa Gregory _ The White Princess

    As I say-it's not the plague. It's this new illness. They call it the sweating sickness, a new plague that King
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    of the palace to inform me that Lady Margaret
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  7. Philippa Gregory _ The White Princess

    There are many sorts of love," she counsels me. "And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream.
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  8. Philippa Gregory _ The White Princess

    Ah, my dear. Sometimes God takes the most precious children to his own.
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  9. Philippa Gregory _ The White Princess

    loving a woman and loving his child is enough,
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  10. Philippa Gregory _ The White Princess

    I look up into his face and catch a glimpse of an emotion I never expected to see. His hazel eyes are warm, his mouth is tender. He looks like a man in love.
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  11. Philippa Gregory _ The White Princess

    He had that York gift, didn't he?" he presses me. "Of making people love him? Like your father King Edward did? Like you have? It's a blessing, there's no real sense to it. It's just that some men have a charm, don't they? And then people follow them? People just follow them?
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  12. Philippa Gregory _ The White Princess

    I can tell you my heart turned to stone at York," he says to me frankly. "Freezing cold wind and a rain that could cut through you, and the faces of the women like stone itself. They looked at me as if I had personally murdered their only son. You know what they're like-they love Richard as dearly as if he rode out only yesterday. Why do they do that? Why do they cling to him still?
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