“ 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… Bernard Cornwell
“ É um poema triste, e portanto um poema verdadeiro. Wyrd bið ful ãræd, diz ele. O destino é inexorável. E wyn eal gedreas. Toda alegria morreu. Bernard Cornwell
“ 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,… Bernard Cornwell
“ There was something about Gawain’s youth and credulity that was driving me to puncture his pious innocence. Bernard Cornwell
“ 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… Bernard Cornwell
“ And their worship has always made more sense to me than bowing down to a god who belongs to a country so far away that I have met no one who has ever been there. Thor and Odin walked our hills, slept… Bernard Cornwell
“ 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… Bernard Cornwell
“ 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. Bernard Cornwell
“ You do not swing in a shield wall, you stab. May the gods ever send me enemies who swing their blades. Bernard Cornwell
“ You can’t live somewhere, he told me, if the people don’t want you to be there. They can kill our cattle or poison our streams, and we would never know who did it. You either slaughter them all or lea… Bernard Cornwell
“ We might know how it ends, but like all good stories it bears repetition. So here it is again, the story of a battle. Bernard Cornwell
“ We honour great men, we admire aristocrats, we applaud actors, we shower gold on portrait painters and we even, sometimes, reward soldiers, but we always despise merchants. But why? It’s the merchant’… Bernard Cornwell
“ Trinity Royal, which was being nuzzled by a dozen small launches nosing into her flank like piglets suckling on a sow. Bernard Cornwell
“ Toquei Bafo de Serpente de novo e me pareceu que ela teve um tremor. Algumas vezes eu achava que a espada cantava. Era um canto fino, apenas entreouvido, um som penetrante, a canção da espada que dese… Bernard Cornwell
“ To hear the tales told at night-time hearths you would think we had made a whole new country in Britain, named it Camelot and peopled it with shining heroes, but the truth is that we simply ruled Dumn… Bernard Cornwell
“ To fight battles, Derfel,’ he corrected me, ‘on behalf of people who can’t fight for themselves. I learned that in Brittany. This miserable world is full of weak people, powerless people, hungry peopl… Bernard Cornwell
“ Thomas nodded towards Keane. 'He doesn't want to be a priest and you don't want to be a monk. Now you're both Hellequin.'Brother Michael looked disbelieving. 'I am?' He asked excitedly.'You are,' Thom… Bernard Cornwell
