Stephen

“Beringar: But do I seem to you a man who would kill, and in so foul a fashion just to secure the trash those children are carrying away with them into Wales?

"Trash?" echoed Cadfael, mildly and thoughtfully...

Beringer: Oh, pleasant to have and useful, I know. But once you have enough of it for your needs, the rest is trash. Can you eat it? Wear It? Ride it? Keep off the rain and the cold with it? Read it? Play music on it? Make Love to it?

Cadfael: You can buy the favor of kings with it.”
― Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many

“American Democracy is not ballet; it is rugby football all of the time.”
― Frederick Ben Hodges

“Brother Reece ... had the capacious if capricious memory of the very old”
― Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones

“Narcissists tend to disinhibit as they age”
― David Brooks