The Road Quotes

“You have discovered the difference between freedom in humble circumstances and slavery amid riches,’ shouted Boudicca to the rebels in a speech put into her mouth by the Roman authors.”
― Christopher Hadley, The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

“we should rightly marvel at the engineering skill of those who built a road that in part could withstand such conditions for so long, that maintains a surface dry enough to be a friend to hornbeam and bluebells in the spring while the damp woodland floor carries ash, hazel, field maple and dog’s mercury. Enough of a continuous dry surface that a little yellow, five-fingered flower could find its slow way to its favourite nesting spots.”
― Christopher Hadley, The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past