Top 26 Rosemary Sutcliff Quotes
#1. Why should a deserter take the trouble to light Rutupiae Beacon?" Aquila demanded, and his voice sounded rough in is own ears.
"Maybe in farewell, maybe in defiance. Maybe to hold back the dark for one more night.
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#2. A soft gust of wind swooped at them under the hornbeam branches, setting the shadows flurrying, and when it died into the grass, Randal laid Bevis' body down, with a stunned emptiness inside him as though something of himself had gone too.
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#3. She was wonderful; no mother could have been more wonderful. But ever after, she demanded that I should not forget it, nor cease to be grateful, nor hold an opinion different from her own, nor even, as I grew older, feel the need for any companionship but hers.
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#4. Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.
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#5. Who so pulleth out this sword from this stone and anvil is trueborn King of all Britain.
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#6. That is our Shield Ring, our last stronghold; not the barrier fells and the totter-moss between, but something in the hearts of men.
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#7. And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the rhythm helped their work, but whistling was in some way different; it took a free man to make the sort of noise Esca was making.
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#8. It is very hot tonight, Justin said, and loosed the folds of his light cloak, revealing the sprig of rye-grass thrust through the bronze clasp at the neck of his tunic.
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#9. Quietness rose within Aquila, easing his wild unrest as the salve was cooling the smart of his gashed side. But that was always the way with Brother Ninnias
the quietness, the sense of sanctuary, were things that he carried with him.
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#10. He loved me and didn't want me hurt. What was worse, he didn't even understand that I had the right to be hurt.
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#11. When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner ... a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.
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#12. Here is one with a gift for loving and a gift for hating, and when he hates, God help the man who earns his hatred.
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#13. I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as though it were quite separate from the rest. I think the end of a story is part of it from the beginning.
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#14. No, don't draw away from me. Whatever else I am, I am your son - your most wretched son. If you do not hate me, try to love me a little, Father; it is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured.
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#15. Always, in these times, I am wretched save when sleep comes to me. Therefore, I have come to look upon sleep as the best of all gifts. - Helen, about the war
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#16. I simply
don't know," Flavius said, and then suddenly explosive: "I don't know and I don't care! Go to bed.
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#17. I have a special "ah, here I am again, I know exactly what they are going to have for breakfast" feeling when I get back into Roman Britain, which is very nice.
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#18. We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.
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#19. But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix was dead, because of Valerius's shame, the empty hut seemed horribly lonely, and there was a small aching need in him for somebody to notice, even if they were not glad, that he had come home.
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#20. I know someone who has never been able to read _The Cuckoo Clock_ since leaving her girlhood home, because it had to be read sitting halfway up the stairs, where the light through a stained-glass landing window fell on it, staining the pages red and blue and green.
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#21. So Aquila took his father's service upon him. It wasn't as good as love; it wasn't as good as hate; but it was something to put into the emptiness within him; better than nothing at all.
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#22. Uncle Acton spent the whole of his working life in India, for the simple reason that he gave up work very young.
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#23. And what will they do to you when you have told them this story?'
Esca said very simply, 'They will kill me.'
'I am sorry, but I do not think much of that plan.' Marcus said.
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#25. That is thy home burning. That is the Normans' work, and never thee forget it!
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#26. The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, "Greater love hath no man
" and Justin thought it sounded as though he were quoting someone else.
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