Rosemary Sutcliff Quotes

• Puede que al final la noche se cierre sobre nosotros, pero creo que la mañana volverá. La mañana siempre surge de la oscuridad, aunque quizá no para las personas que vieron ponerse el sol. Nosotros somos los Portadores de Linternas, amigo mío; para nosotros mantener algo encendido, llevar la luz que podamos hacia adelante en la oscuridad y el viento.

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  Morning, Believe, Night

  Rosemary Sutcliff (2011). “The Lantern Bearers”, p.217, Macmillan

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• We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.

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  Dark, Men, Sides

  Rosemary Sutcliff (1981). “The sword and the circle: King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table”, Vintage

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• Cuando aparece mi yo lúdico, estoy preparado para aprender en serio... una cultura lúdica está estrechamente relacionada con la capacidad de aprender.

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  Culture, Serious, Capacity

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• 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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  Song, Thinking, Stories

  Rosemary Sutcliff (2013). “The Shining Company”, p.43, Random House

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• Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.

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  Courage, Fear, Laughing

  Rosemary Sutcliff (2011). “The Eagle”, p.21, Macmillan

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• 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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  Men, Different, Noise

  Rosemary Sutcliff (2011). “The Eagle of the Ninth”, p.479, Oxford University Press - Children

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• 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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  Lonely, Home, Rome

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• ...extraordinarily beautiful, and slightly out of focus.

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  Beautiful, Focus

  Rosemary Sutcliff (2013). “Frontier Wolf”, p.76, Random House

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• Esca tossed the slender papyrus roll onto the cot, and set his own hands over Marcus's. "I have not served the Centurion because I was his slave," he said, dropping unconsciously into the speech of his own people. "I have served Marcus, and it was not slave-service...my stomach will be glad when we start on this hunting trail.

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  Hunting, Hands, People

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• 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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  Men, Said, Young

  Rosemary Sutcliff (2011). “The Silver Branch”, p.57, Macmillan

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• 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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  Nice, Here I Am, Feelings

  "Rosemary Sutcliff's The Eagle of the Ninth" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• 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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  Sorry, Thinking, Stories

  Rosemary Sutcliff (2011). “The Eagle”, p.161, Macmillan

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• 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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  Farewell, Dark, Night

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