Spectred Isle Quotes

“People create poetry and mustard gas. We invent gods and monsters and gods that might as well be monsters. We act with extraordinary grace and unfathomable cruelty. We're so terribly intelligent, and dreadfully easy to fool.”
― K.J. Charles, Spectred Isle

“Saul sighed. “I swear, no jury would convict me.”
― K.J. Charles, Spectred Isle

“And, to be clear, my family serves England. Not Britain, since the Welsh and Scots and Irish are their own lands,”
― K.J. Charles, Spectred Isle

“You are not going to fall at his feet," Saul told himself severely. "He's not a hearts-and-flowers fellow. Even if he didn't have a hell of a job on, he's not..." He thought of sleek, prowling, predatory Randolph, carrying the words and scars of an ancient god. "He's not domesticated," Saul concluded, and nodded at his reflection with determination.”
― K.J. Charles, Spectred Isle

“Randolph wasn't sure how he'd gone from the lofty keeper of knowledge to a blubbering penitent pouring out his shame, but if he had to do this, it was a relief to have an intelligent confessor.”
― K.J. Charles, Spectred Isle

“east of the sun and west of the moon.”
― K.J. Charles, Spectred Isle

“far too short a time for memories to lose their bite; quite long enough for the world to be turned on its head. Old families whose sons had died in Flanders sold their stately homes to war profiteers; the land was dotted with half-empty villages where the young men were dead and the young women gone; the cities and towns were full of hungry-eyed jobless men; the Empire that had covered a full quarter of the earth was beginning to look less like an immutable and unchanging truth and more like hubris, with nemesis attendant.”
― K.J. Charles, Spectred Isle

“How do we get out?”
― K.J. Charles, Spectred Isle