But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I said carefully, 'then there's no room left fo...
British Rail is some kind of joke, right? They just pretend to run a railroad? Is that right? Anyway
Beware the man who loves battle. Ravn had told me that only one man in three or perhaps one man in four is a real warrior and the rest are reluctant fighters, but I was to learn that only one man in t...
Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot change that truth. And I was a warrior, and in a world at war the warrior must be...
At sea, sometimes, if you take a ship too far from land and the wind rises and the tide sucks with a venomous force and the waves splinter white above the shield-pegs, you have no choice but to go whe...
And when you speak with him, I said, tell him to stop hitting his wife. Erkenwald jerked as though I had just struck him in the face. It is his Christian duty, he said stiffly, to discipline his wife,...
And I must be nineteen by now, lord! Maybe even twenty? Eighteen? I suggested. I could have been married four years ago, lord! We
An army, I learned in time, needs a head. It needs one man to lead it, but give an army two leaders and you halve its strength.
Alfred spends half his time rutting and the other half praying to his god to forgive him for rutting. How can a god disapprove of a good hump?
Acho que o Santo Graal é um sonho que os homens têm, um sonho de que é possível tornar o mundo perfeito. Se ele existisse, todos nós teríamos sabido que o sonho não pode se transformar em realidade.
Ti sbagli, hanno molto a che fare con il Calderone - ribatté Merlino con un'asprezza che nessuno si aspettava. - É il Calderone a portare il caos. Tu desideri l'ordine, e pensi che Lancillotto prester...
Senhor Uhtred! - Como sempre, Willibald reagiu à minha provocação. - Esse peixe - ele apontou o dedo trêmulo na direção dos ossos - foi um dos dois que Nosso Senhor usou para alimentar 5 mil pessoas!-...
Piquancy,
Wyrd bið ful āræd. Fate is inexorable.
Wyrd bið ful aræd.
Men fear wanderers for they have no rules. The Danes came as strangers, rootless and violent, and that, I thought, was why I was always happier in their company.
La mia regina ha alzato le spalle con aria sprezzante. - L'istruzione è così importante?- Penso di sì. Ho sempre rimpianto di non conoscere il latino.- Perché? - mi ha chiesto Igraine.- Perché buona p...
Kill them! I shouted and put my spurs back.Kill them. This is what the poets sing about. At night, in the hall, when the hearth smoke thickens about the beams and the ale-horns are filled and the harp...
It was the year 878, I was twenty-one years old and believed my swords could win me the whole world. I was Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the man who had killed Ubba Lothbrokson beside the sea and who had spil...
It was fate, I thought. Just fate. We think we control our own lives, but the gods play with us like children playing with straw dolls.