At the Edge of the World

At the Edge of the World (Crispin #2)

by Avi

"The more I came to know of the world, the more I knew I knew it not."

"God's mercy, woman...She's devil-marked. She'll bring peril to my wife. I beg you! In the name of Jesus, don't argue!"

"Was ever a family more wondrously made?"

"Why did the French do this?" asked Troth.

"We did the same to them," returned Bear quietly.

"Lying there in the darkness, I thought: is that what it is to be older- to know there are things you are afraid to know?"

"What kind of men-I wondered- were these that killed by day, drank by night, but prayed each morning?"