E.M. Powell > Quotes

“To her horror, Henry threw his head back and roared with laughter. “Sire, please, we’re in a chapel.” He snorted. “God doesn’t mind if we laugh aloud. He created us in His own image, remember.” “Exactly. Chaste, pure, contained, selfless. All the things I was before I met him.” “Oh, my dear girl. God is so much more than that.” Henry put his powerful hand over hers. “Palmer hasn’t changed you. He’s allowed you to be yourself, allowed you to be like your father, as well as your mother. Yes, you’ve had to do some hard, hard things. But so have I. And sometimes we have to ask God for forgiveness for what we’ve done. The glorious thing is, He grants it. It’s what He died for.”
― E.M. Powell, The Fifth Knight

“You can cut and cut at a serpent’s tail. Unless you sever the head, it can still devour you.”
― E.M. Powell, The Fifth Knight

“The Luchthighearn is a monstrous cat. That cave is its lair.’ ‘A big cat?’ Palmer’s stomach tightened. ‘Like a leopard?”
― E.M. Powell, The Lord of Ireland

“poured”
― E.M. Powell, The Fifth Knight

“Dusk sucked the last of the daylight from the sky”
― E.M. Powell, The Fifth Knight

“Henry picked up the empty vial and carefully poured the saint’s blood back in. He would keep it as a blessing and a protection in a lace of holiness. With such a guardian in the heavens, his enemies would never have a chance to hurt him again. He would be safe from every harm, as would all those whom he loved.”
― E.M. Powell, The Blood of The Fifth Knight

“Palmer looked back to see de Lacy still rolling across the muddy road from his fall, the destrier spinning and snorting from its refusal. ‘So you’ve got me, de Lacy?’ He faced forward again with another kick for greater speed. And a low-hanging branch slammed him from the saddle.”
― E.M. Powell, The Lord of Ireland

“I’ve heard such places were built by the ancients, a race of giants who roamed the land before Christ, some with a huge eye in their heads, others with the legs of animals.”
― E.M. Powell, The Fifth Knight

“Forget knighthood, kingdoms, battles. The murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, the murder that Henry now did penance for. The murder that he, Sir Benedict Palmer, had been present at. What mattered now was to keep his family safe.”
― E.M. Powell, The Blood of The Fifth Knight

“you”
― E.M. Powell, The Monastery Murders

“There is no such thing in life as “sure.” I’ve learned that much.”
― E.M. Powell, The Blood of The Fifth Knight

“I suggested it, because she should have something to mark her presence on this earth. You and I, we are so lucky. We have our children. We will live on through them. That poor girl, pushed onto my aging father. Brought into harm’s way, through her youth and beauty, by men who sought only to use her.’ She shook her head, her gaze full of sadness now. ‘She should not be forgotten, the fair Rosamund. She deserved more. As every woman does.”
― E.M. Powell, The Blood of The Fifth Knight

“indicated to a room at the back.”
― E.M. Powell, The Fifth Knight