Lords of the North Quotes

“Hilarem datorem diligit Deus,”
― Bernard Cornwell, Lords of the North: A Novel

“We all have fear. It crawls inside you like a beast, it claws at your guts, it weakens your muscles, it tries to loosen your bowels, and it wants you to cringe and weep, but fear must be thrust away and craft must be loosed, and savagery will see you through, and though many men have tried to kill me and so earn the boast that they killed Uhtred, so far that savagery has let me survive and now, I think, I am too old to die in battle and so will dribble away to nothingness instead.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Lords of the North: A Novel