The Hermit of Eyton Forest Quotes

“Whatever the rights or wrongs of their affection, in the teeth of danger and despair love is entitled to speak its mind, and all others should be blind and deaf.”
― Ellis Peters, The Hermit of Eyton Forest

“King Stephen would never be a threat to his cousin's life, however bitter their rivalry had been, but if once she was made captive, he would be forced to hold her in close ward for his crown's sake. Nor was she ever likely to relinquish her claim, even in prison, and agree to terms that would lightly release her. Friends and allies, thus parted might, in very truth, never see each other again.”
― Ellis Peters, The Hermit of Eyton Forest

“Well,” said Cadfael, leading the way into his workshop, “that’s over. Late but at last, whatever she may have written to him, her letter is on the way to the man for whose heart’s comfort it was intended. And I am glad! Whatever the rights or wrongs of their affection, in the teeth of danger and despair love is entitled to speak its mind, and all others should be blind and deaf. Except God, who can read both the lines and between the lines, and who in the end, in matters of passion as in matters of justice, will have the last word.”
― Ellis Peters, The Hermit of Eyton Forest

“The old man’s dying was painless and feather-light, all the substance of his once sharp and vigorous mind gone on before; but it was slow. The fading candle flame did not flicker, only dimmed in perfect stillness second by second, so mysteriously that they missed the moment when the last spark withdrew, and only knew he was gone when they began to realise that the prints of age were smoothing themselves out gently from his face.”
― Ellis Peters, The Hermit of Eyton Forest