Three Hearts and Three Lions Quotes

“it was not hard to write the equations for an infinity of such parallel worlds. By logical necessity the laws of nature would vary from one to another. Therefore, somewhere in the boundlessness of reality, anything you can imagine must actually exist! Holger”
― Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions

“How much of what we dismiss today may have been based on fragmentary observation, centuries ago, before the very existence of a scientific framework began to condition what facts we would and would not discover?”
― Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions

“What had he been fighting when he fought the Nazis but a resurgence of archaic horrors that civilized men had once believed were safely dead? In”
― Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions

“This business of Chaos versus Law, for example, turned out to be more than religious dogma. It was a practical fact of existence, here.”
― Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions

“The war broke out overseas, and Holger started to fret. As the months passed, he grew steadily more unhappy. He had no deep political convictions, but he found he hated the Nazis with a fervor that astonished us both. When the Germans entered his country, he went on a three-day jag. However, the occupation began fairly peacefully. The Danish government had swallowed the bitter pill, remained at home – the only such government which did – and accepted the status of a neutral power under German protection. Don’t think that didn’t take courage. Among other things, it meant the king was for some years able to prevent the outrages, especially upon Jews, which the citizens of other occupied nations suffered. Holger”
― Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions

“Their spells would bounce like billiard balls off anyone in a state of grace; simply the usual modicum of decency and determination would get a man through.”
― Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions

“Holger didn't feel like an orgy, but had no way to refuse.”
― Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions

“The same fight was being waged, here the Nazis and there the Middle World; but in both places, Chaos against Law, something old and wild and blind at war with man and the works of man.”
― Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions

“So: between his home world and this, some connection existed. Not only the astronomy and geography showed parallels, the very details of history did. The Carl of this world could not be identical with the Charlemagne of his, but somehow they had fulfilled corresponding roles. The mystics, dreamers, poets, and hack writers of home had in some unconscious way been in tune with whatever force linked the two universes; the corpus of stories which they gradually evolved had been a better job of reporting than they knew. Doubtless”
― Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions