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The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3) QUOTES

The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3) QUOTES

1 " I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)

2 " During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)

3 " ...what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of the grave. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)

4 " Tonight," he said, "we shall get quietly and thoroughly drunk...in memory of all that was lost. And on the morrow, I begin the struggle to win it back. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)

5 " What is forgiveness worth without trust? "

― Sharon Kay Penman , The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)

6 " De Mortimer was willing to wager his hopes for salvation that self-interest was the one drink no man refused, but he had never understood why most men must sweeten it so lavishly ere they could swallow it. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)

7 " if a man is a fool to wed for love, he must be utterly daft to wed for lust. No one with sense would expect a candle to burn forever, so why should a flame kindled in bed? "

― Sharon Kay Penman , The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)

8 " Marriage was a Sacrament, yet these festivities more often resembled pagan rites than Christian nuptials. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)

9 " We'd become aliens in our own land," he'd warned, "denied our own laws, our own language, even our yesterdays, for a conquered people are not allowed a prideful past. Worst of all, we'd be leaving our children and grandchildren a legacy of misery and loss, a future bereft of hope. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)

10 " Five years is a long time to grieve," Llewelyn said at last, and Davydd shook his head.
"Grief heals," he said. "Guilt does not. "

― Sharon Kay Penman , The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)

11 " Do not fret, lad. Priests expect you to keep on sinning, do not care as long as you keep on confessing, too. In fact, I would think they prefer it that way, for if there were no sinners, why would we need them? "

― Sharon Kay Penman , The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)