The Bookseller's Tale Quotes

“You cannot often turn a fanatic from the path on which he has set his foot, whatever the catastrophe that lies ahead.”
― Ann Swinfen, The Bookseller's Tale

“It is always good – is it not? – when all that hard work of writing pages is turned into a solid book which will last for generations. You can be proud of that.”
― Ann Swinfen, The Bookseller's Tale

“Meals here consisted of a great deal of day-old bread (bought cheaply), porridge, boiled cabbage, large helpings of stodgy pease pudding, and barley frumenty, flavoured and moistened with a very small amount of mutton broth.”
― Ann Swinfen, The Bookseller's Tale

“There is a kind of hardness of heart amongst us now. We have seen too much, lost too much. ’Tis as if we all wear a kind of armour of indifference.”
― Ann Swinfen, The Bookseller's Tale

“John Wycliffe had argued – and indeed very persuasively – that the Bible should be translated into English, so that any man might read its words for himself.”
― Ann Swinfen, The Bookseller's Tale

“killing is evil in the eyes of God,’ I said. ‘Never forget that.”
― Ann Swinfen, The Bookseller's Tale

“The slaughter of Oxford’s dogs and cats had been well intentioned, but the result had been an explosion in the town’s population of rats, with few surviving predators to keep them down,”
― Ann Swinfen, The Bookseller's Tale