“Shit!” Evelgold added.
“What?” Hook asked, alarmed.
“I just stepped in some.”
“That’s supposed to bring you luck,” Hook said.
“Then I’d better dance in the goddam stuff.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from Azincourt
“The first sound was the bowstrings, the snap of five thousand hemp cords being tightened by stressed yew, and that sound was like the devil’s harpstrings being plucked. Then there was the arrow sound, the sigh of air over feathers, but multiplied, so that it was like the rushing of a wind. That sound diminished as two clouds of arrows, thick as any flock of starlings, climbed into the gray sky. Hook, reaching for another broadhead, marveled at the sight of five thousand arrows in two sky-shadowing groups. The two storms seemed to hover for a heart’s beat at the height of their trajectory, and then the missiles fell. It was Saint Crispin’s Day in Picardy. For an instant there was silence. Then the arrows struck. It was the sound of steel on steel. A clatter, like Satan’s hailstorm.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from Azincourt
“Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that’s more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won’t it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from Azincourt
“Who do you serve?” Lanferelle asked.
“Sir John Cornerwailled,” Hook said proudly.
Lanferelle was pleased. “Sir John! Ah, there's a man. His mother must have slept with a Frenchman.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from Azincourt
“Fight well," he said distantly, "and remember you are Englishmen!"
"Welshmen," someone intervened. Sir Roger visibly flinched at that and then, without another word, led his three men-at-arms from the church.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from Azincourt
“I forgot to mention,” Father Christopher said, smiling seraphically at Sir Martin, “that I am also a priest. So let me offer you a blessing.” He pulled out a golden crucifix that had been hidden beneath his shirt and held it toward Lord Slayton’s men. “May the peace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ,” he said, “comfort and sustain you while you take your farting mouths and your turd-reeking presence out of our sight.” He waved a sketchy cross toward the horsemen. “And thus farewell.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from Azincourt
“So you know it was a glorious battle, Hook, in which God favoured the English, but God's favour is a fickle thing.'
'Are you telling me He's not on our side?'
'I'm telling you that God is on the side of whoever wins, Hook.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from Azincourt
“Trinity Royal, which was being nuzzled by a dozen small launches nosing into her flank like piglets suckling on a sow.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from Azincourt
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Born place: in London, England, The United Kingdom
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“The M1A1 Abrams is like a shark, evolved to a point of absolute perfection. It is the undisputed king of the jungle. No other tank on earth can even begin to damage it. It is wrapped in armor made out of a depleted uranium core sandwiched between rolled steel plate. The armor is dense and impregnable.”
― Lee Child, quote from The Enemy
“Bugün Cengiz Han denildiği zaman aklımıza yok edilen şehirler ve yapılan katliamlar gelir. Milyonlarca öldürülen insanlar, yok edilen dünya mirasları ve yeryüzünden silinen zamanının en güzel şehirleri…
Moğollar islam alemine bir çok zarar vermiştir. Hatta önüne Memlüklüler çıkmasaydı dünyada islam şehri bırakmayacaklardı. Fakat islam alemini Hasan Sabbah’ın kurmuş olduğu ölüm makinesinden kurtaran yine Moğollardır.
Cengiz Han’ın başını çektği ilk dalga hiç kuşkusuz Doğu’nun başına çöken en yıkıcı afetti. Pekin, Buhara veya Semerkant gibi itibarlı şehirler yeryüzünden kazındı ve milyonlarca insan yok edildi.
Alamut’u silip süpüren dalga ise ikinci dalgaydı.Bu önceki kadar kanlı olmasa da, daha yaygın bir istilaydı. Moğol ordularının bir kaç arayla Bağdat’ı Şam’ı Polonya’da Krakow kentini ve Çin’de Sezuan eyaletini yakıp yıkabildikleri düşünülürse, o çağda yaşayanların nasıl bir dehşete kapıldıkları kolayca anlaşılır.
AlamutttYüz altmış altı yıl boyunca her türlü istilacıya kafa tutmuş Alamut kalesi de teslim olmayı tercih etti! Cengiz Han’ın torunu olan Hulagu Han bu askeri inşaat mucizesini bizzat gelip gözleriyle gördü; efsaneye göre, orada Hasan Sabbah’ın devrinden bu yana el sürülmeden duran ve hiç bozulmamış erzak depoları buldu.
Hulagu Han askerlerine herşeyi yıkmalarını ve taş üstünde taş bırakmamalarını emretti. Yakılan yerlere Alamut’un kütüphanesi de dahildi. Bu kütüphanede binlerce hiç bir kopyası olmayan sayısız eser kül oldu.
Böylece Hasan Sabbah’ın kurmuş olduğu ölüm imparatorluğu sona erdi.”
― Vladimir Bartol, quote from Alamut
“You’ll have to turn your back.”
He turned slowly. The view from the back was just as good as the view from the front. I could practically hear Lucy snickering in the back of my head. I might be the vampire daughter, but she was the one who was a bad influence. No question.”
― Alyxandra Harvey, quote from My Love Lies Bleeding
“He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.”
― Obert Skye, quote from Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
“Men of power are unwilling to believe anything ill of their own kind.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Dark Triumph
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