“ He loved me and didn't want me hurt. What was worse, he didn't even understand that I had the right to be hurt. Rosemary Sutcliff
“ But against sandfly fever one could be inoculated, and I have another, hideously vivid picture of a great menacing brute of a doctor sticking a Thing that ended in a vicious needle into my mother's ar… Rosemary Sutcliff
“ That is our Shield Ring, our last stronghold; not the barrier fells and the totter-moss between, but something in the hearts of men. Rosemary Sutcliff
“ Jean and I had, as I think a great many best friends have, a secret make-believe world of our own. We had only to say, 'Let's be Lilian and Diana,' and, as though it was a magical formula, step straig… Rosemary Sutcliff
“ As we grow older, we forget how near to the ground we once were. I do not mean merely because our heads were lower down than they are now, though of course that comes into it; but near in the sense of… Rosemary Sutcliff
“ My mother was the perfect Spartan mother. I have always been able to imagine her telling her sons to return from battle 'with their shields, or on them'. She did actually try it on my father at the st… Rosemary Sutcliff
“ Uncle Acton spent the whole of his working life in India, for the simple reason that he gave up work very young. Rosemary Sutcliff
“ She was wonderful; no mother could have been more wonderful. But ever after, she demanded that I should not forget it, nor cease to be grateful, nor hold an opinion different from her own, nor even, a… Rosemary Sutcliff
“ I know someone who has never been able to read _The Cuckoo Clock_ since leaving her girlhood home, because it had to be read sitting halfway up the stairs, where the light through a stained-glass land… Rosemary Sutcliff
“ As I said before, I took to miniature painting without a completely whole heart, on the advice of my elders and betters. Generally speaking, I do not think that one should ever take another person's a… Rosemary Sutcliff
“ And what will they do to you when you have told them this story?' Esca said very simply, 'They will kill me.' 'I am sorry, but I do not think much of that plan.' Marcus said. Rosemary Sutcliff
“ The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, "Greater love hath no man--" and Justin thought it sounded as though he were quoting someone else… Rosemary Sutcliff
“ See now, for a good blade, one that will not betray the man in battle, rods of hard and soft iron must be heated and braided together. Then is the blade folded over and hammered flat again, and maybe… Rosemary Sutcliff
“ Esca tossed the slender papyrus roll onto the cot, and set his own hands over Marcus's. "I have not served the Centurion because I was his slave," he said, dropping unconsciously into the speech of hi… Rosemary Sutcliff
