I gazed at the far woods and knew our enemies were also sharpening their blades. They had to be confident. They knew the dawn would bring them a battle, victory, plunder, and reputation.
I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,’ I heard myself saying, ‘and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and t...
Fiat voluntas tua,
Except we were there, and I was in a vengeful mood. My cousin was still in Bebbanburg. Æthelhelm was trying to destroy my daughter and her husband. Constantin had humiliated me by driving me from my a...
E fiquei olhando para aquela costa, sabendo que o destino iria me trazer de volta, e toquei o punho de Bafo de Serpente, porque a espada também tinha um destino e eu sabia que ela voltaria a este loca...
Derfel: – Capisco che puoi guardare negliocchi una persona e renderti conto a un tratto che la vita ti sarà impossibilesenza di lei. Che la sua voce può far saltare un battito al tuo cuore, che la sua
Choose your battles, I snarled at Æthelstan. That space between your ears was given so that you can think! If you just charge whenever you see an enemy you’ll earn yourself an early grave.
But deep under the earth, where the corpse serpent gnaws at the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree of life, there are three spinners. Three women who make our fate. We might believe we make choices, but in...
Ti amava - protestai.Lei mi fissò. Pensavo che stesse per esplodere, ma si limitò a sorridere e a scuotere la testa. - Mi venerava, Derfel - disse in tono stanco - e non è la stessa cosa che essere am...
He sang the song of the sword, keening as he fed his blade, and Rollo, standing thigh-deep in the creek, ax swinging in murderous blows, blocked the enemy's escape. The Frisians, transported from con...
Why prefer a god who wants you to torture yourself instead of worshipping Eostre who wants you to take a girl into the woods and make babies?
Was foully aware of the symptoms of terror. He could feel his heart thumping, sweat was chill on his skin, and a muscle in his left thigh was twitching. His throat was parched, his belly felt hollow,...
The Christian god has nothing better to do than to make rules for us. He makes rules, more rules, prohibitions and commandments, and he needs hundreds of black-robed priests and monks to make sure we...
Secession.
Much followed from that hurried ceremony in the flower-speckled clearing beside the stream. So many died. There was so much heartache, so much blood and so many tears that they would have made a great...
If a man believes the nonsense that there is only one god then there’s no point in arguing because it would be like discussing a rainbow with a blind man.
Houses. I remember the first time I ever climbed a Roman staircase, and how odd it felt, and I knew that in times gone by men must have taken such things for granted. Now the world was dung and straw...
Yule is supposed to be a celebration and a consolation, a moment of warm brightness in the heart of winter, a time to eat because you know that the lean times are coming when food will be scarce and i...
You're not a Christian, are you?No.You should consider it. We may not offer too many earthly delights, but our lives after death are certainly worth having.
You know your trouble? You think too much. I’ve never known a happy man who thought too much. Thinking just complicates affairs. Life’s like jumping a bad fence on a good horse, the more responsibilit...