Quotes from Phillipa Gregory

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

Because she is my sister, and therefore one-half of me.

He will never understand what happened that day between a young man and a young woman. There was a magic: and the name of it was love.

Nobody gets to be Queen of England by being loveable. You will have to play your cards right.

Richard made me his wife in the eyes of God; he makes me his queen before all the world. I need wonder no more if he loves me. He has given me his ring in private and the crown in public.

In the cellar, the two young women were shrouded in darkness as if they were already in their grave.

The fiction, as always, is secondary to the history; the real women are always more complex and more conflicted, greater than the heroines of the novel, just as real women now, as then, are often greater than they are reported, sometimes greater than the world wants them to be.

The old laws do not stand. Everything can be remade. Marriage does not mean marriage now.

The queen is right. The queen is always right.