Remember what punishments befell us in this world when we ourselves did not cherish learning nor transmit it to other men.
~ Ælfrēd Of Wessex
Why Anglo-Saxon history?” At the time it had struck the Gray Man as a foolish and unanswerable question. The things that drew him to that time period were surely unconscious and many-headed, diffused through his blood from a lifetime of influences.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
He shed a lake of blood and murdered a king for a cold, lonely throne.
~ Jayne Castel
There is no greater will on earth than the will to survive. These fine people, answering my father's call to arms, had the will in spades and droves. - Lord Tristan Dracanburh, Ethandun
~ Alexandra May
The woman with hair of flames knelt over me. She might have been pretty if not for the anger in every corner of her face. Emerald eyes glowed with almost seeping venom as her nostrils flared. - Lord Tristan Dracanburh, Ethandun