Dark Fire Quotes

“Man is an angry, savage being. Sometimes faith becomes an excuse for battle. It is no real faith then. In justifying their positions in the name of God, men silence God.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“... there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“twisted”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“St Gregory of Nyssa once said All the arts and sciences have their roots in the struggle against death.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“What do our lives matter?' she asked bitterly. 'What are any of us but pawns in the schemes of the great?”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“Where was Christ when that poor girl and her brother were being cut to pieces last night?
Watching, in the sorrow you see there in his face, as men used the free will God gave them to do terrible evil.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“The City knows countless ways to cheat people. It's nothing to be proud of. The country has more honest ways.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“Lupus est homo homini: Man is wolf to man.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“I felt sorry for him. But I reminded myself that a creature at bay is at its most dangerous.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“In these times it is hard to avoid getting caught in the tangle of the great.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“I cannot abide this fashion for women to blacken their teeth deliberately so people will think they live off nothing but fine sugar.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“Perhaps you are a man of too gentle feeling to deal with blood and death.’ She smiled softly.‘As I told you last week, I am a mere jobbing lawyer.’ She shook her head, smiling. ‘No, you are more than that. I thought so when I first saw you.’ She inclined her head, then said, ‘I felt your whole being resound with sadness.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“There were four or five illustrated manuscripts written by old monastic writers, giving vivid descriptions of the use of Greek Fire. Sometimes they called it Flying Fire, sometimes the devil’s tears, fire from the dragon’s mouth, Dark Fire: I puzzled over that last name. How could fire be dark?”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“assize.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“Once I did believe the world could be perfected. I don't think that any more. But I believe I've defended the bad side against the worst.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“What are any of us but pawns in the schemes of the great?”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“There is nothing under the moon that is not subject to change.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“it made me think of all the generations who had lived in this City, dashing and scurrying through their lives, some to leave great monuments and dynasties of children, others rushing only to oblivion.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“justifying their positions in the name of God, men silence God.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire

“her whole being dominated by her hatred of the savage God before whom she meant to martyr herself.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dark Fire