Nancy Martin

“We cannot prevail,' said Walayat Shah. 'The Jehad is dead. Those who slew the women and the babes have slain it also. To slay in battle or in hot blood, that is well. And to kill men, if they be unbelievers, is to achieve Paradise. But to slaughter captive women who have suffered the harshness of war and sorrow, and been robbed thereby of all strength and will, is a deed to blacken the sun! I will fight no more against the feringhis, since God can no longer be upon our side.”
― M.M. Kaye, Shadow of the Moon

“We are all tiny insignificant blinks in history, in a world that couldn't care a hoot if we live or die. You think whoever made this box six thousand years ago cares if we do Pilates and eat our five-a-day?”
― Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die

“Days of death are days when we weigh our relationship with love in our bare hands. Days when we remember what has gone, and fear what is to come. The joy love brings, and the price we pay. When we give thanks but also pray for mercy.”
― Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die

“Wars and riots and mutinies, famine, disaster and the crash of dynasties - the process of birth stopped for none of these things.”
― M.M. Kaye, Shadow of the Moon