“Should I come to you, Father, with anything that made me ashamed? What do I matter? What's honour to me? My honour is to keep her from harm and from grief. I have no other; I want none.” — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
“A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.” — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
“Well, do as you think best. That's every man's right and duty. But for me, I pledge you now I will not surrender one… — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
“Should I come to you, Father, with anything that made me ashamed? What do I matter? What's honour to me? My honour is to… — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
“Learn humility, while there's yet time--': those were the last of the abbot's words he had waited to hear. All very well, he thought,… — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
“Have you no errand I can do for you in hell?' he said. 'There's cleaner company there.” — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
“Not his match! And have you not the heart in you to be anything but best? How many are his match? How many in… — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
“The dispensations of God are always just,' he said. 'We get the sons we deserve.” — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
“What is there," Owain wondered aloud, to the sky above him and the soil below, "persuades this man still that my words do not… — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
“He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.” — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
“This new approach, it seemed, was not to be made so publicly, not to be exposed to the expedient treason of little devious minds… — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
“Love with her would be a field of action, not a need. She was complete whether she won or lost the world. She was… — Edith Pargeter Copy Share Image
