“ Six wives the King's had now.' Barak's words dragged me from my reverie. 'We can't even get one between us. C.J. Sansom
“ If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable. C.J. Sansom
“ Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in t… C.J. Sansom
“ Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accep… C.J. Sansom
“ The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die. C.J. Sansom
“ How men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns to explain its terrible mysteries and reassure ourselves we are safe in this world and beyond. C.J. Sansom
