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A Morbid Taste for Bones
Ellis Peters
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.”
“I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.”
“Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all.”
“God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.”
“... there are as holy persons outside orders as ever there are in, and not to trifle with truth, as good men out of the Christian church as most I've met within it. In the Holy Land I've known Saracens I’d trust before the common run of the crusaders, men honourable, generous and courteous, who would have scorned to haggle and jostle for place and trade as some of our allies did. Meet every man as you find him, for we’re all made the same under habit or robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern all.”
“When I want to hear my echo,” said Brother Cadfael, “I will at least speak first.”
“The best way to get the sweet out of children and escape the bitter is to have them by proxy.”
“The lodging arrangements had certainly been inspired, though whether by an angel or an imp remained to be seen.”
“Official justice does not dig deep, but regards what comes readily to the surface, and draws conclusions accordingly.”
“It’s a kind of arrogance to be so certain you’re past redemption.”
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humility, equality, god, forgiveness