He liked to see men cowed and frightened, for that made them biddable, and Sergeant Hakeswill was always at his happiest when he was in control of unhappy men.
He died without cutting his nails, she said accusingly, as if I was responsible for that ill luck, and it was bad fortune indeed because now the grim things of the underworld would use Ivar’s nails to...
Fate is inexorable.
E enquanto houver um reino nesta ilha varrida pelo vento, haverá guerra. Portanto não podemos nos encolher para longe da guerra. Não podemos nos esconder de sua crueldade, de seu sangue, do fedor, da...
Do you really think men and women thanked you for bringing them peace? They just became bored with your peace and so brewed their own trouble to fill the boredom. Men don’t want peace, Arthur, they wa...
British Rail is some kind of joke, right? They just pretend to run a railroad? Is that right? Anyway
And then I had ridden from the east in the glory of a warrior, which is what I am and always have been. All my life I have followed the path of the sword. Given a choice, and I have been given many ch...
And not just any mail. My coat was of Frankish make and would cost a man more than the price of a warship. Sihtric had polished the metal with sand so that it shone like silver. The hem of the coat wa...
A battle in the shield wall. It's smelling your enemy's breath while he tries to disembowel you with an axe, it's blood and shit and screams and pain and terror. It's trampling in your friends' guts a...
Senhor Uhtred! - O padre Willibald veio correndo na minha direção. - O que está acontecendo? O que está acontecendo?- Decidi começar uma guerra, padre - respondi cheio de animação. - É muito mais inte...
Nós queremos a fidelidade nas pessoas que amamos, senhora, então não é óbvio que elas a queiram em nós? A fidelidade é um presente que oferecemos aos que amamos.
Мерлин обичаше да казва, че животът е шега на Боговете и в него няма справедливост. Трябва да се научиш да се смееш, каза ми веднъж той, иначе просто ще плачеш докато умреш
É uma coisa ruim estar sempre combatendo, disse ele a ela: Enquanto estou no meio daquilo fico atarefado demais para sentir qualquer coisa; mas logo depois a sensação é deplorável. É praticamente impo...
Understand, and then, of course, the Danes had come, and they tore the churches apart to steal the silver from the altars. I remember Ragnar laughing one day. It is so kind of the Christians! They put...
The rocketmen ran for cover. The missiles
Ignored Truslow, trusting instead in the Colonel’s largesse.
But men inspired by prophecy will attempt any foolishness in the knowledge that the fates have ordained their victory.
And Ravn recited a long poem about some ancient hero who killed a monster and then the monster’s mother who was even more fearsome than her son, but I was too drunk to remember much of it. And
You’re a boy playing in men’s games, Sharpie, and you’re going to lose unless you’re a man. Are you man enough to fight me here? Put me down? Claim I was kicked by a horse in the night? You can try, S...
Your mother didn’t give birth to you, I told him, but farted you out of her shriveled arsehole.