A Queen's Spy Quotes

“You wish to teach me a lesson?” Richard laughed. “What in? Humility, yet that is not for me. Perhaps honour? No, that was beaten from me long since. Surely you could not think morality? Too late, the corrupt cannot become pure. Or maybe faith, possibly faith, for I confess I have none. Could it be charity, could it? No, I have had enough of charity’s acid kisses. Then it must be hope, oh no…” He faltered and laughed harshly. “Hope then, that inspires the spirit, holding the promise of trust, belief, confidence…” An arm outstretched caught the fireplace. He sagged against it, and from there he dropped to his knees. “Am I such a despairing, desperate, lamenting fool? Ruined and undone? For hope is most surely dead.”
― Samantha Burnell, A Queen's Spy

“room that doubled as a store with twelve other men, several empty barrels, a broken plough and jumbles of household debris the owner thought was still of some use. But the room was dry, and well heated by the number of slumbering bodies.”
― Samantha Burnell, A Queen's Spy

“tell me. I cannot make the right decisions if I don’t know all the facts,” Jack said.”
― Samantha Burnell, A Queen's Spy