Musta Nuoli: Kertomus Ruusujen Ajalta

“[H]e began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!””

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I had four blak arrows under my belt,Four for the greefs that I have felt,Four for the number of ill menneThat have oppressid me now and then.One is gone; one is wele sped;Old Apulyaird is dead.One is for Maister Bennet Hatch,That burned Grimstone, walls and thatch.One for Sir Oliver Oates,That cut Sir Harry Shelton’s throat.Sir Daniel, ye shull have the fourt;We shall think it fair sport.Ye shull each have your own part,A blak arrow in each blak heart.Get ye to your knees for to pray;Ye are ded theeves, by yea and nay!JON AMEND-ALLOf the Green Wood,And his jolly fellaweship””

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.””

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I know; I don't care to die either. But when whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine?””

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“and for the first time began to understand the desperate game that we play in life; and how a thing once done is not to be changed or remedied, by any penitence. But””

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all.””

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Nay,' said Dick. 'And now that I have seen you for what ye are - the fairest maid and stateliest of England - think ye I would turn? - if the deep sea were there, I would straight through it; if the way were full of lions, I would scatter them like mice.””

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“If the barons live at war, ploughfolk must eat roots.” “Nay,””

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“He is one that goes to bed Lancaster and gets up York.””

— Robert Louis Stevenson