A Conspiracy of Wolves Quotes

“All that goes before shapes thee. Even thy habit of prayer. Magda honors that. Alisoun had little faith that her prayers were heard – God and the Blessed Mother had stood aside while she lost all her family to the pestilence. But something in the words, the ritual, comforted her. According to Magda, to pay attention to how Alisoun felt about her choices was to heed her inner wisdom, whence came her gift for healing.”
― Candace Robb, A Conspiracy of Wolves

“Does it not disturb you? The violence, the blood.’ ‘My dreams are haunted by it. But I honor the dead by doing what I can to expose the darkness that took them.’ ‘And bring them justice?’ ‘Justice? No. Breathing life into the dead, undoing their injuries – that would be justice, but that I cannot do. I seek to prevent further violence, expose the corruption …’ Owen’s words sounded hollow to him even as he uttered them. ‘It is little enough.”
― Candace Robb, A Conspiracy of Wolves

“Alisoun might reassure him of this, but Magda’s instruction was to say only what thou must. Thou art here to listen.”
― Candace Robb, A Conspiracy of Wolves