The Bastard Executioner Quotes
Wilkin: I need but a moment in private.
Isabel: And that will happen when pigs learn to dance!
So you choose who lives and who dies? Well, you must be so relieved to be down from that dreadful cross!
Baroness
I know the burden of your soul. I recognize it as my own. I do not know if what I feel for you is God's will or the work of a clever demon. But I am certain, Wilkin Brattle, that whatever the case may be, it is the thing for which I've been waiting. It is the other girl I hear in my heart. The other life that lives in the shadow of my own.
Baroness
With every new piece of truth, I grow more bewildered, good woman.
Father Ruskin
I know you think of me as a simple demon. But you know a mere glimpse of me, Wilkin. I have lived many hard lives. And I survived by seeing the shadow of the axe before it falls.
Milus
It seems you and the good baron share a deep, poetic connection. It's as if you were reading each other's thoughts. And perhaps writing them down and rehearsing them as well.
Baroness [to Milus]
My name is Wilkin Brattle. I was a knight in Longshanks' army. Ventris was my commander. He sent me and my legion into an ambush of certain death. I was spared by a miracle and fled to your land... only to be roused again, in blood.
Wilkin
And so we have vengeance.
Wilkin
Lady Love: I saw the birth of a boy. When I touched your wound that night. A vision. It lasted but a moment but it was... fit and clear. I sensed you saw it as well.
Wilkin: No, milady, I... felt only the pain of my wound.
Brothers, please! We are family, are we not?
Ash
Lady Love: May our savior keep you safe, Griffy.
Gruffudd: Of course he will. Jesus was a rebel.
Lady Love: I have your word brother that we do this together
Gruffudd: Yes. An alliance of noble and outlaw. It is rather poetic.
Lady Love: Poetry will not keep our necks from the king's axe.
