Heartstone Quotes

“Politics is like dice: the better the player, the worse the man.”
― C.J. Sansom, Heartstone

“be needed.’ I looked at her. I sensed how much she wanted me to deal with this case. And if I could go via Rolfswood . . . ‘I will do it,’ I said. ‘Thank you.’ She smiled gratefully and turned to the ladies. ‘Jane, please fetch Mistress Calfhill.’ ‘Now,’ she said to me quietly, ‘Bess Calfhill, whom you are about to meet, was an old servant of mine when I was Lady Latimer. A housekeeper at one of our properties in the north and later in London. She is a good, true woman, but she has recently suffered a great loss. Deal with her gently. If anyone deserves justice, it is Bess.’ The maid-in-waiting returned, bringing with her the woman I had seen in the presence chamber. She was small, frail looking. She approached with nervous steps, her hands held tightly together. ‘Come, good Bess,’ the Queen said in a welcoming voice. ‘This is Master Shardlake, a serjeant at law. Jane, bring over a chair. One for Serjeant Shardlake too.’ Mistress Calfhill lowered herself onto”
― C.J. Sansom, Heartstone

“Emma reached back, flicked another arrow on to her bow,”
― C.J. Sansom, Heartstone

“There are only eight does and some fauns among the rascal,”
― C.J. Sansom, Heartstone

“Arrows had been stuck in the grass, their white-feathered tips”
― C.J. Sansom, Heartstone

“An arrow projected from the trunk above our heads, the white-feathered tip still trembling.”
― C.J. Sansom, Heartstone

“Yes. I saw him as I left the house that day. He was in the hallway outside, I am sure he had been listening at the door. He gave me an impertinent stare, a strange look for a child, something - triumphant about it.’ ‘He would have been - what - twelve then?’ ‘Yes. As ill favoured a boy as I have ever seen. Squat, fat-faced.”
― C.J. Sansom, Heartstone

“add to all the others he had levied for the war.”
― C.J. Sansom, Heartstone

“Morgan laughed. ‘Captain Grenville doesn’t know the Mary Rose, though at least he’s a seaman, unlike some of the captains. Most are knighted gentlemen, you see, to put us in awe.’ Like Sir Franklin with the soldiers, I thought”
― C.J. Sansom, Heartstone