World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)

by Ken Follett

“Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot hope to understand the world—all we can do is stand amazed at God’s creation. True knowledge comes only from revelation. We should not question received wisdom.”

“He is a devil. And the old stories are right: when you make a bargain with the devil, you end up paying more than you thought.”

A woman’s life was a house of closed doors: she could not be an apprentice, she could not study at the university, she could not be a priest or a physician, or shoot a bow or fight with a sword, and she could not marry without submitting herself to the tyranny of her husband.

It doesn’t matter whether I was right or wrong. What matters is that it was up to me to decide, not you.

people think leaders breed leaders.

“When you’ve lost everything, you’ve got nothing to lose.”