Lionheart

He would never be able to emulate Richard's last gesture of defiance--gallant, glorious, and quite mad.

Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity

How fragile life was, how fleeting their days on earth, and how fickle was Death, claiming the young as often as the old, the healthy as often as the ailing, cruelly stealing away a baby’s first breath, a mother’s fading heartbeat.

Men always think God favors their cause. I am sure Ya’qūb of Aleppo never doubted it, either.

Soldiers have many vices, but vanity is not amongst them. How could it be? What man is going to worry about his hair when he might lose his head?

War was war and soldiers were the same the world over, although killing came easier to some than others.

He would never be able to emulate Richard’s last gesture of defiance—gallant, glorious, and quite mad.