The Dagger and the Cross Quotes

“Rumors are easy to plant; they grow like no other crop.”
― Judith Tarr, The Dagger and the Cross

“One acts with dignity,” he said, “as much as one may. One compromises only as much as one must, and still remain oneself. And one keeps one’s pride, even if one must keep it in secret, where only God can see.”
― Judith Tarr, The Dagger and the Cross

“The wall of it rose between them, higher than any she could raise with power. Too high by far to leap, too sheer to scale. But a gate—that, God willing, they could build. If she could learn to trust him again. If he could learn to rule his temper.”
― Judith Tarr, The Dagger and the Cross

“The lion’s cub grows into a lion.”
― Judith Tarr, The Dagger and the Cross