“Men are born and die. Kingdoms soar and crumble. Yet still the sun rises and sets. Few things are sure, but that there will always be a tomorrow and everything that has a beginning, also has an end.”
― The Crown in the Heather
― The Crown in the Heather
“Scottish divisions were gathering up in expectation. A year’s worth of anticipation... and dread. Centuries’ worth of struggle. All of us waiting to offer blood in exchange for hope.”
― Worth Dying For
― Worth Dying For
“Most people weren’t aware that books chose us, at the time when we needed them most.”
― The Little Bookshop on the Seine
― The Little Bookshop on the Seine
“The vestiges of a once large and mighty army lay in scattered ruins. Its leaders had abandoned it – fled, to save their own lives so they might go back to England and live off the fat of their lands. The brave sons of Scotland had won their battle. Not because they were more – no, they were outnumbered four-fold. Not because they were better armed or paid. They won because, in order to live, they had to.”
― Worth Dying For
― Worth Dying For
“Friends they were, above all. Not servants. Not soldiers. Not subjects. But friends that I loved and to whom I owed everything. I had been blessed to know them. Honored that I was struck with a dream I could not part from. A simple dream. Freedom. All men are born free. We Scots have merely fought for what God intended us to have.”
― The Honor Due a King
― The Honor Due a King
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