“To live is to hold your child, your own flesh, your very blood, in your arms. To see her smile and wrap five tiny fingers around just one of yours. To live is to hold your wife close to you… — N. Gemini Sasson Copy Share Image
“The vestiges of a once large and mighty army lay in scattered ruins. Its leaders had abandoned it – fled, to save their own lives so they might go back to England and live off the fat of their lands. The brave sons of Scotland had won their battle. Not because they were more – no, they were outnumbered four-fold.… — N. Gemini Sasson Copy Share
“I’ve heard there are modern Scots clamoring for independence even in the twenty-first century. They even have their own parliament now — although to… — N. Gemini Sasson Copy Share Image
“What irony that in these months since I've been king, not for a day have I lived like one.” — N. Gemini Sasson Copy Share Image
“Scottish divisions were gathering up in expectation. A year’s worth of anticipation... and dread. Centuries’ worth of struggle. All of us waiting to offer… — N. Gemini Sasson Copy Share Image
“To live is to hold your child, your own flesh, your very blood, in your arms. To see her smile and wrap five tiny… — N. Gemini Sasson Copy Share Image
“And in that I never saw more truth...than to truly live, was to have something worth dying for.” — N. Gemini Sasson Copy Share Image
“We’re as ready as we are ever damn well going to be. I say let them come. Let them test the faith of Scotland… — N. Gemini Sasson Copy Share Image
“I held my fingers out to the new day. I that virgin light -- bold strands of pink and orange breaking over the rim… — N. Gemini Sasson Copy Share Image
“I thought surely I looked upon all the sons of Scotland of all the ages there in one place at one time, ready to… — N. Gemini Sasson Copy Share Image
“Friends they were, above all. Not servants. Not soldiers. Not subjects. But friends that I loved and to whom I owed everything. I had… — N. Gemini Sasson Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow morning we'll rise again, more tired and hungry than we are today, but God willing still alive and whole.” — N. Gemini Sasson Copy Share Image
