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Philippa Gregory
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The Red Queen
When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.
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Philippa Gregory
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The Red Queen
The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.
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Philippa Gregory
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The Red Queen
All this is always for nothing," he says. "Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should have been avoided. But if Edward can defeat the queen, and imprison her along with her husband, then it will indeed be over.
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Philippa Gregory
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The Red Queen
We may be of the same family, but that is the very reason why we are not friends, for we are rivals for the throne. What quarrels are worse than family quarrels?
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Philippa Gregory
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The Red Queen
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.
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Philippa Gregory
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The Lady of the Rivers
Like almost all girls I don't know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and the time. I only know the year and the season, and I only know the season because my mother had a great desire for asparagus when she was carrying me and swears that she ate it too green and her bellyache brought on my birth.
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Philippa Gregory
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The Red Queen
My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.
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Philippa Gregory
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The Red Queen
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.
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Philippa Gregory
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The Lady of the Rivers
We stand hand-clasped, our faces quite blank, as if this were not a nightmare that tells me, as clearly as if it were written in letters of fire, what ending a girl may expect if she defies the rules of men and thinks she can make her own destiny. I am here not only to witness what happens to a heretic. I am here to witness what happens to a woman who thinks she knows more than men.
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Philippa Gregory
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The Lady of the Rivers
Everything that highly educated men can do to obscure a simple truth, to make a woman doubt her feelings, to make her own thoughts a muddle, they do to her. They use their learning as a hurdle to herd her one way and then the other and then finally trap her in contradictions of which she can make no sense.
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Philippa Gregory
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The Lady of the Rivers
The tears in my eyes are now running down my cheeks at the thought that I have been his wife and his bedfellow, his companion and his duchess, and even now, though he is near to death, still he does not love me. He has never loved me. He never will love me.
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Philippa Gregory
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The Red Queen
Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.
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