The King's Curse
Philippa Gregory
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Thomas More once told me: lion or king, never show fear or you are a dead man.”
“She’s like an anchor that he has forgotten, but still it keeps him steady.”
“Life is a risk, who knows this better than me? Who knows more surely that babies die easily, that children fall ill from the least cause, that royal blood is fatally weak, that death walks behind my family like a faithful black hound?”
“We are Plantagenets - we dine on a diet of betrayal and heartbreak.”
“It's not magic. It's what any slut does if she has her wits about her.”
“How would I know? I don’t hold with prophecies and predictions and long-lost kings. I don’t have giants in my family tree, like you Nevilles. I don’t have three suns in the sky like you Yorks. I am not descended from a water goddess who comes out of a river to mate with mortals! When your family was founded, no one had ever heard of us. When your uncles were on the throne, mine were quiet City men. I don’t know what you might have, what you might have kept from those times—a banner or a standard, a bead-roll or letter. Anything that shows your descent, anything that shows your royal blood, any prophecy that you once had the throne and will have it again. But whatever you have, your ladyship, clear it out and burn it. Nothing is worth the risk of keeping.”
“He was such a happy boy, and happiness is not memorable.”
“A single man’s imperfect conscience can never be superior to centuries of tradition.”
“scowling with worry. “Come at once, he’s”
“pilgrims and swore an oath? Who rang the”
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