Mystery!: Cadfael (TV Series)

The Sanctuary Sparrow (1994)

Derek Jacobi: Brother Cadfael

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Sheriff Hugh Beringar : Old friend, I doubt even you can get Susanna into the fold among the lambs. Now she chose her way and it's taken her far out of the reach of man's mercy. Oh, and now I suppose you'll tell me that God's reach is longer than man's.

  Brother Cadfael : It had better be. Otherwise we're all lost.

  Sheriff Hugh Beringar : Hmmm...

• Liliwin : Oh, brother, I want to tell you, but I doubt it's in your understanding. We never intended evil, but we committed a terrible sacrilege here in the church. How can I tell one who's never known?

  Brother Cadfael : You lay together as lovers.

  Liliwin : Are we damned, brother?

  Brother Cadfael : Do you love tbis girl?

  Liliwin : Love her? With all my heart I love her; she's my life's breath!

  Brother Cadfael : Where there is mutual love, I find it hard to consider any place too holy to house it... any place.

• Sheriff Hugh Beringar : I tell you they came to the castle this afternoon, under Margery's urging no doubt. His face, Cadfael... you should have seen his face. Daniel Aurifaber, the true penitent.

  Brother Cadfael : But do you believe him, that he spent that night with another women?

  Sheriff Hugh Beringar : You may wear the cowl now, Cadfaekl, but it was not always so. You're not entirely without experience of these matters... more so than me, I sometimes think.

• Brother Cadfael : [to Daniel Aurifaber]  Put up that dagger or court your soul's damnation!

• Prior Robert : [a mob is yeling for Liliwin's blood]  Surely they will deliver him up to the law!

  Brother Cadfael : Yes, by way of the nearest tree!

• Brother Cadfael : [to Juliana Aurifaber]  I wonder I shouldn't be telling you to stamp about the house all day. Hm? Then perhaps you might do the opposite.

• Susanna Aurifaber : [to Cadfael]  This is not the Holy Church's child! He belongs with me and Iestyn... no other shall ever cradle him!

  Brother Cadfael : He is *not* wholly yours. He is his own, your may-be child Why should he pay the price of your sins? It was not he who trampled Baldwin Peche into the mud of the Severn!

  Susanna Aurifaber : We three here together are made one! The only trinity I acknowledge now!

  Brother Cadfael : There is a fourth... she also loves! Why destroy another pair of lives as little blessed as yourselves?

  Susanna Aurifaber : If I must pull the roof down on myself, I will not go alone into the dark!