He was dying as he’d lived, and that made it so much harder for those who loved him. But then she remembered what she’d been told about his father’s wretched last hours. After learning that John had b...
He supposed he’d always known he would not make old bones. Scriptures spoke plainly enough on that. For all they that take up the sword shall perish by the sword.
For every wound, the ointment of time.
But such was her faith in Simon that it colored her faith in God; unable to conceive of defeat, she never doubted that the Lord, too, willed Simon to win, and falling asleep in Simon’s arms, she did n...
But in all honesty, I do not find it so peculiar a notion, that a Welshman should rule Wales.
An intimate enemy, death, capricious and cruel, ultimately invincible.
A man just realizing the fatal extent of his own folly was not likely to be all that rational.
Just ridden
You might as well face it. You're not going to be able to fight for the crown. You'll just have to grit your teeth and let us hand it over to you at the bargaining table.
You asked what the Londoners wanted of you, and he…he said ‘ballocks.
Yesterday I heard some of the castle servants talking about a funeral for one of the stable lads. He went skating last week on the pond in the village, but the ice was not thick enough and he drowned....
Whilst stupidity may indeed be a sin, it is also possible to be too clever. I sometimes fear, John, that you are too clever by half.
To call it a setback is like calling the Expulsion from Eden a minor misunderstanding.
The last time Ranulf had run into Sulien, the older man had called him a misbegotten English Judas and spat onto the ground at his feet. Yet now that same man was approaching the bed with a jovial smi...
Now our poor Gib never had a sense of humor to lose...
Marriage was a Sacrament, yet these festivities more often resembled pagan rites than Christian nuptials.
It was a basic tenet of faith with men of Ranulf’s class that a knight, trained in the ways of war since boyhood, could easily vanquish lesser foes, as much a belief in the superiority of blood and br...
I asked Simon if he’d ever feared that all our struggles, all our suffering might be in vain. Not a priest’s question, and he shamed me by his answer, by the shining certainty of his faith. He said no...
Here I was, rushing off to save my little brother from pirates, only to find that he fancies being a pirate himself!
He would never be able to emulate Richard's last gesture of defiance--gallant, glorious, and quite mad.