A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury Quotes

“A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.”
― Edith Pargeter, A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury

“Well, do as you think best. That's every man's right and duty. But for me, I pledge you now I will not surrender one grain of my rights. What I took, I took and by God, I'll keep it, too. Take her home tomorrow, Archie, and never look back to watch what I do, for you know it before. I would not give him one knigh who had confided himself to me and none other, much less you. Only over my dead body," said Hotspur hardily, eye to eye with the friend he had made under Homildon Hill, "will King Henry ever claim you as his prisoner.”
― Edith Pargeter, A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury

“There's nothing in this world within arm's-length of possibility that can not be done, when a man must.”
― Edith Pargeter, A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury

“He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.”
― Edith Pargeter, A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury

“This new approach, it seemed, was not to be made so publicly, not to be exposed to the expedient treason of little devious minds far removed from the battlefields on which honest men met, and contended, and killed one another without malice.”
― Edith Pargeter, A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury