The Fifth Knight Quotes

“To her horror, Henry threw his head back and roared with laughter. “Sire, please, we’re in a chapel.” He snorted. “God doesn’t mind if we laugh aloud. He created us in His own image, remember.” “Exactly. Chaste, pure, contained, selfless. All the things I was before I met him.” “Oh, my dear girl. God is so much more than that.” Henry put his powerful hand over hers. “Palmer hasn’t changed you. He’s allowed you to be yourself, allowed you to be like your father, as well as your mother. Yes, you’ve had to do some hard, hard things. But so have I. And sometimes we have to ask God for forgiveness for what we’ve done. The glorious thing is, He grants it. It’s what He died for.”
― E.M. Powell, The Fifth Knight

“You can cut and cut at a serpent’s tail. Unless you sever the head, it can still devour you.”
― E.M. Powell, The Fifth Knight

“I’ve heard such places were built by the ancients, a race of giants who roamed the land before Christ, some with a huge eye in their heads, others with the legs of animals.”
― E.M. Powell, The Fifth Knight

“indicated to a room at the back.”
― E.M. Powell, The Fifth Knight

“poured”
― E.M. Powell, The Fifth Knight

“Dusk sucked the last of the daylight from the sky”
― E.M. Powell, The Fifth Knight