Bernard Cornwell Quotes

I Don't Fight Old Men, He Said. That Was Strange. No One Had Ever Called Me Old Before. I Remember Laughing, But There Was Shock Behind My Laughter. Weeks Before, Talking With Aethelflaed, I Had Mocked Her Because She Was Staring At Her Face In A Great Silver Platter. She Was Worried Because She Had Lines About Her Eyes And She Had Responded To My Mockery By Thrusting The Plate At Me, And I Had Looked At My Reflection And Seen That My Beard Was Gray. I Remember Staring At It As She Laughed At Me, And I Did Not Feel Old Even Though My Wounded Leg Could Be Treacherously Stiff. Was That How People Saw Me? As An Old Man? Yet I Was Forty-five Years Old That Year, So Yes, I Was An Old Man.

Bernard Cornwell Quotes: I Don't Fight Old Men, He Said. That Was Strange. No One Had Ever Called Me Old Before. I Remember

Bernard Cornwell Quotes: I Don't Fight Old Men, He Said. That Was Strange. No One Had Ever Called Me Old Before. I Remember

Bernard Cornwell Quotes: I Don't Fight Old Men, He Said. That Was Strange. No One Had Ever Called Me Old Before. I Remember

Bernard Cornwell Quotes: I Don't Fight Old Men, He Said. That Was Strange. No One Had Ever Called Me Old Before. I Remember

Bernard Cornwell Quotes: I Don't Fight Old Men, He Said. That Was Strange. No One Had Ever Called Me Old Before. I Remember

Bernard Cornwell Quotes: I Don't Fight Old Men, He Said. That Was Strange. No One Had Ever Called Me Old Before. I Remember

Bernard Cornwell Quotes: I Don't Fight Old Men, He Said. That Was Strange. No One Had Ever Called Me Old Before. I Remember

Bernard Cornwell Quotes: I Don't Fight Old Men, He Said. That Was Strange. No One Had Ever Called Me Old Before. I Remember

Bernard Cornwell Quotes: I Don't Fight Old Men, He Said. That Was Strange. No One Had Ever Called Me Old Before. I Remember

Bernard Cornwell Quotes: I Don't Fight Old Men, He Said. That Was Strange. No One Had Ever Called Me Old Before. I Remember

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