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Before long, all I thought about was what it would be like to be one of them. To be with boys my own age, fighting and running and larking about. And to learn to ride and shoot, instead of sitting in the chamber all day with women and
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“Winners never talk about glorious victories. That’s because they’re the ones who see what the battlefield looks like afterward. It’s only the losers who have glorious victories.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“There were sights on that battlefield I never want to see again. Good men lost on both sides, and if you know what it was all for, Nat, then you can tell me, because I don’t know.”
― The Smallest Man
― The Smallest Man
“Even given the advantage of a surprise attack, it was vain to believe that a few hundred men fighting against thousands would lead to anything but annihilation.”
― The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
― The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
“Babies are such blank slates. They don’t come into this world with the assumptions their parents have made, or the promises their church will give, or the ability to sort people into groups they like and don’t like.”
― Small Great Things
― Small Great Things
“He told them that going willingly to their deaths in Christ’s name was a sure path to salvation. Of course, it was one thing for Bernard to write this, theorizing a thousand miles from the Holy Land and glorifying in a martyrdom he would never himself experience. It was quite another for a band of ninety Templars, called from their castle and told to attack against impossible odds, to swallow down their fear and do it. Yet they did.”
― The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
― The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
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