Karen

“I had the arrogant confidence of a man born to battle. I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred, son of another Uhtred, and we had not held Bebbanburg and its lands by whimpering at altars. We are warriors.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom

“We are all lonely and all seek a hand to hold in the darkness. It is not the harp, but the hand that plays it.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom

“Oh, it’s a terrible, cruel thing—first you’re young, and that takes up such a long time you think it’s forever, then suddenly you’re not young, and you never get used to it—and, oh dear, there’s just the one way out.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys”
― Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys

“In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys