How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Page)
Quote #4
She slipped a dirk into him in as matter-of-course a way as another person would have harpooned a rat! (16.6)
It's not just that Morgan Le Fay kills the page (for bumping into her no less)—it's that she doesn't give a second thought about doing so. (It's apparently okay—or at least more okay—to kill someone and feel bad about it afterwards.) Morgan's a villain, so we kind of expect evil behavior from her, but it still happens an awful lot in this book.
Quote #5
I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious. (17.1)
A little irony: it's good for your blood. Hank points out that religious enthusiasm seems to balance out all sorts of crimes… which is another way of saying that religion is crime's enabler. C'mon dude, it'll be totally cool to beat that turnip farmer to death. We'll be absolved of our sins at church…
Quote #6
The deer was ravaging the man's fields, and he had killed it in sudden passion, and not for gain. (18.2)
The quote refers to a man in Morgan Le Fay's dungeons, sentenced to die for killing a deer. Hank uses a ridiculous legal argument to free him; is such absurdity justified, or does it simply demonstrate how hard it is to find true justice?