Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregoryis an English historical novelist who has been writing since 1987. The best known of her works is The Other Boleyn Girl, which in 2002 won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been adapted into two separate films...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 January 1954
dream teaching people
I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
waiting enemy fool
Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.
helping sometimes
Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.
father love-you thinking
And – I think you know, don’t you? – that I love you, Anne.’ I feel as if I have been living in a loveless world for too long. The last tender face I saw was my father’s when he sailed for England. ‘You do? Truly?’ ‘I do.’ He rises to his feet and pulls me up to stand beside him. My chin comes to his shoulder, we are both dainty, long-limbed, coltish: well-matched. I turn my face into his jacket. ‘Will you marry me?’ he whispers. ‘Yes,’ I say.
rejection darkness despair
I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.
summer country couple
I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.
taken self beloved
He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
want-something unhappy desire
When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. 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.
i-have-learned surviving
I have learned the power of surviving.
goodbye saying-goodbye ends
I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.
looks i-smile look-at-me
When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.
stars night darkness
We're going' Anne said firmly. So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.' Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness.
rivals said born
I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?
curves fever fool
But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.