Minstrels Quotes by Sharon Kay Penman

“Outside, the sky was clear, stars gleaming in its ebony vastness like celestial fireflies. It was bitterly cold, and Hywel's every breath trailed after…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“He'd never seen one so vibrant, though, or so vividly compelling... those glowing green eyes sparkling with sunlight and curiosity and silent laughter, and…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“We've schemed and fought and loved until we are so entangled in hearts and minds that there is no way to set us free.…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“You seem to forget, Dickon, that we are dealing with the Spider King. Louis realized, just as you have, that it would take more…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“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…

— Sharon Kay Penman

In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling in the…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“I once came upon a definition of history as ‘the process by which complex truths are transformed into simplified falsehoods’. That is particularly true…

— Sharon Kay Penman

My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.

— Sharon Kay Penman

“Otherwise, I’d like nothing better than…conversing with you. You’re such a deep, penetrating conversationalist, after all,”

— Sharon Kay Penman

Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England.

— Sharon Kay Penman

“Richard grinned, very pleased with himself for having found a way to honor his mother, thwart his father, and serve God, while having a…

— Sharon Kay Penman

I was actually born in New York City, but my family moved to Atlantic City when I was five, this being my dad's home…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“In time of war, the Devil makes more room in Hell.”

— Sharon Kay Penman

“You asked what the Londoners wanted of you, and he…he said ‘ballocks.”

— Sharon Kay Penman

“...for he of all men knew how dangerously stubborn Henry Fitz Empress could be. There were faint bloodstains upon the tiles in Canterbury Cathedral…

— Sharon Kay Penman