Putting a cat into a stable doesn’t make it a horse
Prisoners! Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored my own insistence that we take men captive.
Priests come to my home beside the northern sea where they find an old man, and they tell me I am just a few paces from the fires of hell. I only need repent, they say, and I will go to heaven and liv...
Poor as an honest lawyer.
Play with the devil, Finan said, and you get burned.
Os bardos cantam sobre o amor e sobre como as mulheres desejam o amor, mas ninguém sabe o que ele é até que, como uma lança atirada do escuro, ele acerta.
Mothers were sacred. Mothers were not expected to be pretty.
Mais tarde, muito mais tarde, aprendi que a alegria e o medo são exatamente a mesma coisa, uma apenas se transformava na outra pela ação, mas
Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.
Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we...
Lawford shrugged. She jilted you.Easy come, easy go, Sharpe said, then belted the tunic.
Juan Fernandez islands. Cochrane drew on the cigar and watched its smoke drift out the window. The islands are three hundred fifty miles off the coast, in the middle of nothing! They’re where Robinson...
It was then I first saw Ubba fight and marveled at him, for he was a bringer of death, a grim warrior, sword lover. He did not fight in a shield wall, but ran into his enemies, shield slamming one way...
It takes a weak man to prove his strength by striking a woman.
Instead he was summoning his last tension, like a bowman drawing the cord of a hunting bow an extra inch to give the arrow deadly force, then Steapa howled like an animal and charged. Weland charged t...
In breve, eravamo soddisfatti, e il destino è sempre stato nemico della soddisfazione. Il destino inoltre, come mi aveva sempre detto Merlino, è inesorabile.
If a man can’t remember the laws, Ragnar said, then he’s got too many of them.
I'm getting old, I said again, and that was true. I had lived more than fifty years and most men were lucky to see forty. Yet all old age was bringing was the death of dreams.
I want to believe him, my lady! Leofstan said earnestly. I want to believe that this is a miracle to accompany my enthronement! That on Easter day we will have the joy of bringing a pagan horde into t...
I swear to be your man, I said, looking into his pale eyes, until your family is safe.He hesitated. I had given him the oath, but I had qualified it.I had let him know that I would not remain his man...