The Armor of Light Quotes

“Love is the best thing in the world to have, and the worst to lose.” For a moment he felt terrible grief, and he had to fight back tears. “No, you’re wrong,” she said. “Even worse is to be trapped and know you will never have it.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Quiero demostrar que puede haber industria sin explotación —dijo—. Y negocio sin corrupción”
― Ken Follett, La armadura de la luz

“Because bad memories poison good,”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“tragic.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“ociosidad se le hace muy difícil a un hombre bueno. A los holgazanes les encanta, pero, para alguien como tú, es una auténtica tortura. No permitas que eso te arruine la vida.”
― Ken Follett, La armadura de la luz

“Because bad memories poison good,” said”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“But you can learn something just by studying which lies a person chooses to tell.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Sal asked a baker for a standard four-pound loaf, and he said: “That will be one shilling and two pence.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Die Schule ist mir egal. Der Streik auch. Wichtig ist mir meine Zukunft, und ich will eine Ehefrau, die mir gehorcht und sich aus allem Ärger heraushält."
"Ach, Kenelm", sagte sie, "ich fürchte, da hast du die Falsche geheiratet.”
― Ken Follett, Armor Of Light

“He was pretty sure it was not normal for a young man to be obsessed for seven years with one woman who plainly did not return his love.”
― Ken Follett, The Armour of Light

“Laudanum was opium dissolved in alcohol.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“He was lying on top of the bedclothes, and Hornbeam was shocked to see that he was dressed mostly in bandages. One leg and one arm were strapped in splints, and there was a dressing around his head. Blood was seeping through in patches. He looked terrible.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Jeremiah’s back was soon all bloody. Now the whip landed not on skin but on the flesh beneath, and he began to cry out in pain. The sheriff said: “Twenty.” The agony became tedious to watch, and some spectators moved away, repelled and bored, too, but most stayed to see it through to the end. Jeremiah began to scream each time the whip landed, and between strokes he uttered a horrible sound that was half sobbing and half moaning. “Thirty.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“No,”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“A lot of masters, in the cotton industry as well as the wool, want to get that Combination Act repealed. What with that and the Treason Act and the Seditious Meetings Act, the hands can hardly speak without risking their necks—and men are quick to resort to violence when violence is all they’ve got.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“cock-a-hoop.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Love is the best thing in the world to have, and the worst to lose.” For a moment he felt terrible grief, and he had to fight back tears.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“knew a Greek sailor once. He drank like a fish but he was no bloody philosopher.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Kit’s mother had money, they lived in a warm house with a real chimney,”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Jimmy was holding his three-cornered hat in his hands.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“O Lord, give us the courage to fight for what is right, and the humility to know when we are wrong. Amen.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“She was skinny and spotty, with thin mousy hair tucked into a dirty white cap, but she was kind to Kit and showed him how to do everything, and he adored her. He called her Fan.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“You see, my dear, it’s not good for the laboring classes to learn to read and write,” he said, shifting into paternal mode, the older man dispensing wisdom to utopian youth. “Books and newspapers fill their heads with half-understood ideas. It makes them discontented with the station in life that God has ordained for them. They get foolish notions about equality and democracy.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“The work of transforming fleece into cloth was done mainly by villagers working in their homes. First the fleece had to be untangled and cleaned, and this was called scribbling or carding. Then it was spun into long strings of yarn and wound onto bobbins. Finally the strings were woven on a loom and became strips of cloth a yard wide. Cloth was the main industry in the west of England, and Kingsbridge was at its center.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Sal recognized the fur cap. It belonged to her husband, Harry. She had made it herself, after she had caught the rabbit and killed it with a stone and skinned it and cooked it in a pot with an onion.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“scrubbed,” Arabella said.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Don’t you think reading the Bible would help laboring people to resist false prophets?”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light