Rosemary Sutcliff Quotes

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

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.

When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.

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

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.

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

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.

Uncle Acton spent the whole of his working life in India, for the simple reason that he gave up work very young.

It is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured.

He loved me and didn't want me hurt. What was worse, he didn't even understand that I had the right to be hurt.