Teaser Tuesdays - April 22, 2014

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. To play along, just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers!
• Share the title and author, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!

Hugh Bigod would sell his own mother; everyone knew that. The decision for men would be whether to go with his word and be absolved of the oaths sworn to Matilda and little Henry, or stay true to what they had vowed. But if her husband had not named a successor on his deathbed, then the aftermath would be like a host of kites circling and descending to feed on a kill.
~Lady of the English by Elizabeth Chadwick, page 174

As he saw it, he had two choices. Steal from the woman he loved and thereby aid in ruining her forever. Or risk a mutiny in which he'd most likely end up dead.
~The Ransom by MaryLu Tyndall, page 257


"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." ~Mark Twain
~Meet the Skeptic by Bill Foster, Chapter 1

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