Jack

“Hope had stolen into his life just as he was growing comfortable with despair.”
― David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes

“We, the heirs of Saint Patrick, we who kept alive the Christian faith and the writings of ancient Rome when most of the world had sunk under the barbarians, we who gave the Saxons their education are to be taught a lesson in Christianity by the English?”
― Edward Rutherfurd, The Princes of Ireland

“The English Church, it was claimed, was Catholicism purified and reformed. And what was the nature of this reform? The truth was that nobody, least of all Henry himself, had much idea.”
― Edward Rutherfurd, The Princes of Ireland

“The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator...”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita