"Dominion is a spy novel, a love story,……" — C.J. Sansom
"Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world."
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C.J. Sansom
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12 Quotes by C.J. Sansom
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If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?
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It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not?…
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But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.
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The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God…
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Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it…
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Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.
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The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying…
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We of alien looks or words must stick together.
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In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.
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Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in…
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Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.
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