So much wealth and so much power, Armstrong thought, yet with a little luck, we can bring you down like Humpty-Dumpty... - James Clavell

Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it.

How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable — all at the same time?

Ce minunat, ce minunat de simplu e să poți spune că dragostea te aduce aproape de Dumnezeu.