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When Gods Die (Sebastian St. Cyr, #2) QUOTES

When Gods Die (Sebastian St. Cyr, #2) QUOTES

1 " She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who’d died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning. "

― C.S. Harris , When Gods Die (Sebastian St. Cyr, #2)

2 " The Church, like the monarchy, was a valuable bastion of defense against the dangerous alliance of atheistical philosophy with political radicalism. The Bible taught the poorer orders that their lowly path had been allotted to them by the hand of God, and the Church was there to make quite certain they understood that. "

― C.S. Harris , When Gods Die (Sebastian St. Cyr, #2)

3 " He was like a god to her. What happens when your god dies? Sebastian wondered. When someone is your sun and moon and stars, and then you discover something, something that reveals a hitherto unknown weakness so fundamental, so shattering that it destroys not only your trust in the other person, but your respect, too.
Some people never recover from that kind of disillusionment. "

― C.S. Harris , When Gods Die (Sebastian St. Cyr, #2)

4 " You can’t know that. I may not believe in God, but I’ve come to believe that there is a pattern. A pattern that works itself out in ways we can’t begin to understand. "

― C.S. Harris , When Gods Die (Sebastian St. Cyr, #2)

5 " the merry green eyes and a roguish dimple "

― C.S. Harris , When Gods Die (Sebastian St. Cyr, #2)

6 " Hardly. Guin was passionate about many things, but government wasn’t one of them. As far as she was concerned, one crowned puppet is pretty much the same as the next. "

― C.S. Harris , When Gods Die (Sebastian St. Cyr, #2)

7 " He was like a god to her. What happens when your god dies? Sebastian wondered. When someone is your sun and moon and stars, and then you discover something, something that reveals a hitherto unknown weakness so fundamental, so shattering that it destroys not only your trust in the other person, but your respect, too. "

― C.S. Harris , When Gods Die (Sebastian St. Cyr, #2)

8 " odor like that of rotting meat permeated "

― C.S. Harris , When Gods Die (Sebastian St. Cyr, #2)

9 " It was the stuff of legends, the Highland Rising of 1745 in support of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Sebastian had heard the stories, too, from his grandmother, Hendon’s mother, who had been a Grant from Glenmoriston. Stories of unarmed clansmen dragged out of crofts and slaughtered before their screaming children. Of women and children burned alive, or turned out of their villages to die in the snow. What was done to the Highlanders after Culloden would forever be a dark stain on the English soul. Everything from the pipes to the plaids to the Gaelic language itself had been forbidden, obliterating an entire culture. "

― C.S. Harris , When Gods Die (Sebastian St. Cyr, #2)