Barry Thatcher

“It may be that the night will close over us in the end, but I believe that morning will come again. Morning always grows out of the darkness, though maybe not for the people who saw the sun go down. We are the Lantern Bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind.”
― Rosemary Sutcliff, The Lantern Bearers

“No, don't draw away from me. Whatever else I am, I am your son - your most wretched son. If you do not hate me, try to love me a little, Father; it is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured.”
― Rosemary Sutcliff - Sword at Sunset

“We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.”
― Rosemary Sutcliff

“Who so pulleth out this sword from this stone and anvil is trueborn King of all Britain.”
― Rosemary Sutcliff