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#1

“Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

tags: anne-boleyn, henry-viii, historical-fiction

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#2

“I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

tags: anne-boleyn

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#3

“I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

tags: anne-boleyn, henry-viii, historical-fiction, mary-boleyn

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#4

“If I must die, then I will die boldly, as I have lived.”
― Carolyn Meyer, Doomed Queen Anne

tags: anne-boleyn

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#5

“He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them for me.”
― Carolyn Meyer, Doomed Queen Anne

tags: anne-boleyn, henry-viii

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#6

“What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away.”
― Carolyn Meyer, Doomed Queen Anne

tags: anne-boleyn

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#7

“If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.”
― Queen Anne Boleyn

tags: anne-boleyn

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#8

“Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out--- Anne Boleyn was Tudor England's Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons.”
― Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di

tags: anne-boleyn, beauty, history, power

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#9

“Pobre Katherine Howard. Ella yace en el frío suelo junto a mí. Pero fuimos como dos mariposas nocturnas atraídas a la llama y quemadas.”
― Anne Boleyn

tags: anne-boleyn, henry-viii, the-tudors

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#10

“Ella yace en el suelo junto a mí...pero fuimos como dos mariposas nocturnas atraídas a la llama y quemadas.”
― Anne Boleyn

tags: anne-boleyn, henry-viii, the-tudors

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#11

“In the forest you may find yourself lost, without companions. You may come to a river which is not on a map. You may lose sight of your quarry, and forget why you are there. You may meet a dwarf, or the living Christ, or an old enemy of yours; or a new enemy, one you do not know until you see his face appear between the rustling leaves, and see the glint of his dagger. You may find a woman asleep in a bower of leaves. For a moment, before you don’t recognise her, you will think she is someone you know.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

tags: cromwell, england, fiction, historical-fiction, the-tudors, thomas-cromwell, wolf-hall

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#12

“Jane," I said quietly.
She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer.
"Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying."
"If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

tags: flirt, henry-viii, jane-seymour, mary-boleyn, threat

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#13

“Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

tags: boleyn, fiction, henry-viii, historical-fiction, katherine

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#14

“He embraced me before them all, and he cried: 'Let every man favor his own doctor. This Dr. Colet is the doctor for me....”
― Jean Plaidy, The King's Confidante

tags: henry-viii, jean-plaidy

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#15

“So now get up.'

Felled, dazed, silent, he has fallen; knocked full length on the cobbles of the yard. His head turns sideways; his eyes are turned toward the gate, as if someone might arrive to help him out. One blow, properly placed, could kill him now.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

tags: first-sentence, henry-viii, thomas-cromwell

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#16

“Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled.
(Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)”
― Hilary Mantel

tags: creative-writing, henry-viii, historical-fiction, historical-novel, thomas-cromwell

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#17

“No son wishes to see his son less powerful than himself.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

tags: henry-viii, pg-257, the-dead-coplain-of-their-burial, thomas-cromwell

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#18

“There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue”
― Elizabeth I

tags: elizabeth-i

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#19

“Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be”
― Elizabeth I

tags: elizabeth-i, the-virgin-quenn

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#20

“My care is like my shadow in the sun,
Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it,
Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.”
― Elizabeth I

tags: elizabeth-i, love, monarch, on-monsieur-s-departure, poem, queen

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#21

“Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell the other. But, said Rochester, he [Windham] never did.”
― Jenny Uglow

tags: a-gambling-man, charles-ii, historical, history, sad

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#22

“You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister."

"Am I?" the dwarf replied, sardonic. "Do tell my lord father. My mother died birthing me, and he's never been sure."

"I don't even know who my mother was," Jon said.

"Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs."

And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune.

When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: bastards, dwarfs, humor, jon-snow, king, sarcasm, tyrion-lannister

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#23

“How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?"

Jaime reached for the flagon to refill his cup. "So many vows...they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

tags: catelyn-starks, jaime-lannister, king, knight, life, love, obey, protect, respect, vows

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#24

“Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent
To blow up the King and Parli’ment.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England’s overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: english-history, gunpowder, king, november, treason

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#25

“I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

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#26

“Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: king, leadership

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#27

“And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too.”
― Queen Elizabeth I

tags: leadership, queen, spain, spanish-armada

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#28

“I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate.
I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned,
Since from myself another self I turned.

My care is like my shadow in the sun,
Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it,
Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.”
― Elizabeth I, Her Life in Letters

tags: elizabeth, legacy, men, poem, queen, tudor

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#29

“For most of my life i have been adored by fools and hated by people of good sense, and they all make up stories about me in which I am either a saint or a whore. But I am above these judgments, I am a Queen.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Queen

tags: queen

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#30

“Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: bad, daenerys, daenerys-targaryen, good, people, queen

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