“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 the world that they took as certain proof that… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
“Never in England were there so many gentlemen and so little gentleness.” — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
“prior looked at each other with mutual distaste. ‘Mortifying yourself again, Jerome?” — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
“... there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.” — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
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… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
“I suppose we were drawn to each other because neither of us quite fitted in.” — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way. — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
“You untangle a knot with slow teasing, not sharp pulling, and believe me we have here a knot such as I have never seen.… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image