Quotes By Author: Bernard Cornwell

“-“I have kept the faith, Planchard.” -“Then you are the only man who has” Planchard said, “and it is an heretical faith.”-“They crucified Christ for heresy” Vexille said, “so to be named a heretic is to be one with Him.”

“People like mystery. They want nothing explained, because when things are explained then there is no hope left. I have seen folk dying and known there is nothing to be done, and I am asked to go because the priest will soon arrive with his dish covered by a cloth, and everyone prays for a miracle. It never happens. And the person dies and I get blamed, not God or the priest, but I!”

“But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you’ll just weep yourself to death.”