{"author":"Philippa Gregory","author_id":"Philippa+Gregory","total_quotes":79,"quotes":[{"text":"Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.","author":"Philippa Gregory","tags":["myself","i am","people "],"id":841,"author_id":"Philippa+Gregory"},{"text":"And then the sword came down like a flash of lightning, and then her head was off her body and the long rivalry between me and the other Boleyn girl was over.","author":"Philippa Gregory","tags":["death-and-dying"],"id":6580,"author_id":"Philippa+Gregory"},{"text":"You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...Guided by your own virtue and highest ambition.","author":"Philippa Gregory","tags":["choice","virtue"],"id":12714,"author_id":"Philippa+Gregory"},{"text":"I have given my word that only death will take me from you.","author":"Philippa Gregory","tags":["brothers","death","family","life","love","war"],"id":15992,"author_id":"Philippa+Gregory"},{"text":"For a moment we glared at each other, stubborn as cats on the stable wall, full of mutual resentment and something darker, the old sense between sisters that there is only really room in the world for one girl. The sense that every fight could be to the death.","author":"Philippa Gregory","tags":["hurt","resentment","siblings","sisters"],"id":16975,"author_id":"Philippa+Gregory"},{"text":"Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better please him.","author":"Philippa Gregory","tags":["history","marriage","ownership","personhood","women"],"id":21970,"author_id":"Philippa+Gregory"},{"text":"He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.","author":"Philippa Gregory","tags":["fiction","historical","romance"],"id":25045,"author_id":"Philippa+Gregory"},{"text":"They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.","author":"Philippa Gregory","tags":["love","lovers","the-cousins-war"],"id":26936,"author_id":"Philippa+Gregory"},{"text":"Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.","author":"Philippa Gregory","tags":["humour"],"id":27742,"author_id":"Philippa+Gregory"},{"text":"He is my brother,' I said. 'I cannot desert him.'You can go to your own death,' William said. 'Or you can survive this, bring up your children, and guard Anne's little girl who will be shamed and bastardized and motherless by the end of this week. You can wait out this reign and see what comes next. See what the future holds for the Princess Elizabeth, defend our son Henry against those who will want to set him up as the king's heir or even worse-flaunt him as a pretender. You owe it to your children to protect them.","author":"Philippa Gregory","tags":["family","future","love","sacrifice"],"id":40818,"author_id":"Philippa+Gregory"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":79,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}