World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)

by Ken Follett

As it was in the beginning Is now And ever shall be World without end. Amen. “Amen,” Godwyn repeated. One of the monks sneezed.

she thought about how children grew up to defy their parents’ expectations. Her own father had wanted to treat her like a commodity to be traded, but she had angrily refused to be used that way. Now each of her sons was taking his own road through life, and in both cases it was not the one she had planned. Sam would be a knight, and Davey was going to marry Annet’s daughter. If we knew how they would turn out, she thought, would we be so eager to have them?