“How men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns to explain its terrible mysteries and reassure ourselves we are safe in this world and beyond.” — 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
