I wondered why the gods no longer came to earth. It would make belief so much easier.
I was screaming with joy because the battle calm had come, the same blessed stillness I had felt at Cynuit. It is a joy, that feeling, and the only other joy to compare is that of being with a woman.I...
I was angry. I wanted blood in the dawn.
I think only one man in three is a warrior, and sometimes not even that many, but in our army, Uhtred, every man is a fighter. If you do not want to be a warrior you stay home in Denmark. You till the...
I tell my grandchildren that confidence wins battles. I do not wish them to fight, I would rather make Ieremias’s world a reality and so live in harmony, but there is always some man, and it is usuall...
I sometimes think,' Merlin said when no more suggestions were offered, 'that I am doomed to live among idiots.
I remember my first shield wall, I said, and I was scared. It had been against cattle raiders from Wales and I had been terrified. Since then I had fought against the best that the Northmen could send...
I learned that money was the object of life, and I wanted money. I wanted the servants, the fine clothes, the respect in the street, and a horse of my own. I wanted to ride into Stratford and spit on...
I just gazed at the smoke haze above Lundene, the darkness darkening a summer sky, and wished I were a bird, high in that nothingness, vanishing. Haesten
I have lived my life, Derfel,’ he said at last, ‘according to oaths. I know no other way. I resent oaths, and so should all men, for oaths bind us, they hobble our freedom, and who among us doesn’t wa...
I had never thought it all through before, but suddenly, on that cold day, I understood that among the Danes I was as important as my friends, and without friends I was just another landless, masterle...
I ain’t seen a herd the size of it, not even when the Scots drive the beeves down from Scotland to London.
How many’s that? I asked the shepherd. Jiggit and mumph, lord, he said. Is that enough? It’s enough, lord. Kill the rest then, I said. Jiggit and mumph? Willibald asked, still shivering. Twenty and fi...
His men howled with him. They were caught up in Baird’s madness. At this hour, under the fire of the sun and emboldened by the arrack and rum they had drunk in their long wait in the trenches, the red...
He knew you were a warrior. He called you a brute. He said you were like a dog that attacks a bull. You had no fear because you had no sense.
He grinned at Sharpe. Christ, but this is joy! What would we do for happiness if peace came? He turned his horse clumsily, rammed his heels back, and whooped as the horse took off. Let’s go get the wh...
Guinefort had been a dog and, so far as Thomas’s father knew, the only animal ever to be canonized. The beast had saved a baby from a wolf, then been martyred by his owner, who thought the dog had eat...
God’s purposes are not always easy to understand, but I have found that his methods are not as indirect as ours. We complicate God because we do not see that goodness is so very simple.
For what? the Lord of Douglas demanded. For
Eppure sono convinto che Artù sarebbe rimasto in Dumnonia, se avesse ricevuto ciò che desiderava, ossia la gratitudine. Era un uomo orgoglioso e sapeva bene ciò che aveva fatto per il nostro regno, ma...