7 quotes
Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden’s arms.
The Broken Sword (1954)
Hurry and hurry, autumn leaves hurrying on the rainy wind, snow hurrying out of the sky, life hurrying to death, gods hurrying to oblivion.
The Broken Sword (1954)
Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness which can see naught above or beyond itself.
The Broken Sword (1954)
Over unforced love, the gods themselves had no might.
The Broken Sword (1954)
You should pay no heed to what some yokel priest has prated of. What does he know?
The Broken Sword (1954)
I say that a God who would come between two who have been to each other what we have been, is not one I would heed.
The Broken Sword (1954)
She rarely saw priest—and knowing her heart sinned, was glad of that. Dreary was a church after the woodlands and hills and sounding sea. She still loved God—and was not the earth His work, and a church only man’s?—but she could not bring herself to call on Him very often.
The Broken Sword (1954)