Nan

“Katrijn reached out for the pommel. Ever so lightly, she touched the tip of her finger to the gem. Then she cupped it, gently, in her palm, before pulling away. She looked up at him.

“When you go home to your family, will you put the Moon back in the sky?”

“I will,” Tom said. “And every night, when you look up and see it, you’ll know I’m thinking of you.”

She flung herself at him. She wrapped her arms tightly around his neck and whispered in his ear.
“Ik hou van je, Tom.”

He closed his eyes and held her. “I love you, too, Katrijn.”
― Kevin Sands, Call of the Wraith

“Tom raised his eyebrows. “Master Benedict keeps cannon fuse?” “We use it to light things from far away,” I said. “You know,” Tom said, “things you have to light from far away probably shouldn’t be lit at all.”
― Kevin Sands, The Blackthorn Key

“But I don't want to go to Paris. It's full of foreigners."

"Actually, in Paris, we'll be the foreigners."

"Englishmen can't be foreigners, Christopher.”
― Kevin Sands, The Assassin's Curse

“Do you have a spare bear's crotch in the back?" Tom clutched his cheeks and moaned.”
― Kevin Sands, The Blackthorn Key