The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)

by Ken Follett

“When you’re thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.”

He felt he knew her. She was loving, sensual, romantic, imaginative, and warm. She was also thoughtless and imperious, and she had learned to be tough; but she was not cold, not cruel, not heartless.

Perhaps he would just walk into the forest and lie down and die. That seemed to him a nice idea.

“I can’t make out whether you love that wretched woman or hate her.” “No,” William said. “Nor can I.”