Cousins War Quotes

“This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.”
― Philippa Gregory, The White Queen

“I can’t sleep,” he says so quietly that only I can hear. “I can’t sleep. I can’t sleep. I can’t sleep.”
“Nor I.”
“You neither?”
“No.”
“Truly?”
“Yes.”
He sighs a deep sigh, as if he is relieved. “Is this love then?”
“I suppose so.”
“I can’t eat.”
“No.”
“I can’t think of anything but you. I can’t go on another moment like this; I can’t ride out into battle like this. I am as foolish as a boy. I am mad for you, like a boy. I cannot be without you; I will not be
without you. Whatever it costs me.”
I can feel my color rising like heat in my cheeks, and for the first time in days I can feel myself smile. “I can’t think of anything but you,” I whisper. “Nothing. I thought I was sick.”
The ring like a crown is heavy in my pocket, my headdress is pulling at my hair; but I stand without awareness, seeing nothing but him, feeling nothing but his warm breath on my cheek and scenting
the smell of his horse, the leather of his saddle, and the smell of him: spices, rosewater, sweat.
“I am mad for you,” he says.
I feel my smile turn up my lips as I look into his face at last. “And I for you,” I say quietly. “Truly.”
― Philippa Gregory

“He is fragile, like a prince of ice, of glass.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers

“The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Red Queen

“When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Red Queen