The Evening and the Morning Quotes

“In dog philosophy it was always better to go somewhere than to be left behind.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“Edgar’s family believed in plans. His father had often said that you had to build the entire boat in your imagination before picking up the first piece of timber.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“Ma and Pa had taught their sons to keep themselves fresh by bathing at least once a year.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“And so, Aldred thought, great ones sin with impunity while lesser men are brutally chastised.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“You could spoil anything by worrying too much.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“Count”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“Dios rompió el molde contigo,”
― Ken Follett, Las tinieblas y el alba

“And that would be sufficient, if we lived in a world that was ruled by laws.” Aldred sat on a stool, leaned forward, and spoke quietly. “But the man matters more than the law, as you know.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“there would never be time for him and Sunni to grow accustomed to each other, to fall into routines, to take each other for granted;”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“Degbert and his crew seemed to cast a shadow over everything Aldred did. Aldred was willing to break his vow of obedience if he could put an end to the minster.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“Don’t you know about the great princess Ethelfled, the daughter of King Alfred and lord of all Mercia?” she said.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“the ceremony had gone smoothly, except for Wigelm’s strange intervention. Ithamar was now writing the names of the witnesses to the marriage, starting with Wilf himself, and followed by all the important people there: Wynstan, Osmund, Degbert, and Sheriff Denewald. It”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“Grants of territory such as this were the everyday currency of politics in Normandy as well as England. The sovereign gave lands to the great noblemen, who in turned parceled them out to lesser rulers—called thanes in England, knights in Normandy—thereby creating a web of people who were loyal because they had gained wealth and hoped for more.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“west wind”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“Your father was a rock. He meant what he said and he did what he promised. He loved me, and he loved you three, and that didn’t change in more than twenty years. He wasn’t handsome, and sometimes he wasn’t even good-tempered, but I trusted him utterly, and he never let me down.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“am Mildred.” She pointed out the boys, eldest to youngest. “My sons are Erman, Eadbald, and Edgar.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“Count Hubert was proud of many things. He cherished his warlike Viking heritage, but he was more gratified by the way the Vikings had become Normans, with their own version of the French language.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“The mortared joints between the stones of a round arch formed lines that should all point to the center of one imaginary circle, like the spokes of a well-made cart wheel, but in this arch they were random.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“that a penny weighed one-twentieth of an ounce. There were twelve ounces in a pound, so a pound was two hundred and forty pennies. The metal was not pure: thirty-seven parts in forty were silver, the rest copper. A penny would buy half a dozen chickens or a quarter of a sheep. For cheaper items, a penny had to be cut into two halfpennies or four farthings. The exact division caused constant quarrels.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“Eadbald, the middle brother, stopped suddenly, wrinkled his freckled brow, and said: “I think we might be there.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“Most of them were Britons, people from the wild western fringes of civilization, Wales and Cornwall and Ireland.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“Midsummer, which was the twenty-fourth day of June; Michaelmas, the twenty-ninth of September; Christmas, the twenty-fifth of December; and Lady Day, the twenty-fifth of March.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“disoriented,”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“It was odd, she reflected, that someone who had failed to condemn the rape would disapprove audibly of the mention of it.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“...you've wandered into the nuns' zone...”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“I saw him born," [Edgar] said between sobs. "It was like a miracle."
"I know," said Agatha.
"And then I saw him murdered.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“She was uncomfortable, the more so because it was Gytha who was telling her about it. Ragna knew that mothers could be irrationally hostile to their sons’ women, and that probably applied to stepmothers, too.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“Escucha, Edgar, es vieja y un día se morirá, y solo Dios sabe cuándo será eso.”
― Ken Follett, Las tinieblas y el alba

“El trabajo en el campo le resulta muy duro. Edgar veía a su madre una vez por semana, pero sus hermanos estaban con ella todos los días.”
― Ken Follett, Las tinieblas y el alba

“a wrongdoer found out could often be morally indignant, as if the discovery was the offence, rather than the original transgression.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning