Baynard's List Quotes

“There was no room for the petty controversies of men.”
― Jason Vail, Baynard's List

“Nevertheless, despite the claim of duress, Thumper’s confession exposed him to a counter-plea for false swearing, which was almost as bad as homicide.”
― Jason Vail, Baynard's List

“Quite so,” Margaret said with bitterness. “One is never safe from men with unchecked power. You can be sure they will abuse it.”
― Jason Vail, Baynard's List

“The stairway was dark and he bumped into a woman whom he neither saw nor heard coming. “Watch it, love,” she said, “or I’ll knock you down.”               “You nearly did,” Stephen said with a forced laugh.               “Oh, sorry, sir,” she said, realizing from his accent he was gentry. “I didn’t see you.”
― Jason Vail, Baynard's List

“The sonorous Latin words, which sounded like singing even when it was not meant to be singing, rolled through the air with the inexorability that only Latin possessed.”
― Jason Vail, Baynard's List

“Honor meant keeping your word and dealing fairly and honestly with people. It was the glue that held society together; without it there would be nothing but unchecked greed and chaos.”
― Jason Vail, Baynard's List

“Books were expensive and only the wealthy had them. Stephen, who had a secret liking for books, idly opened it. It was written in Latin. He recognized it as the confessions of St. Augustine.”
― Jason Vail, Baynard's List

“He had to look death in the face as he had never had to before and to pronounce the manner and the reason for it, so that there would be an official record and the death could be properly assessed, because no man, woman, or child was supposed to pass into the next world without giving fine to the king for the misfortune.”
― Jason Vail, Baynard's List

“And that was that. He might as well try resisting a river.”
― Jason Vail, Baynard's List