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"That was all I asked of God, that I need not see him each time I looked into your face. Little enough to ask, I should think." She laughed suddenly, unsteadily. "But we do pay and pay for our sins, it seems, and you grow more like him with each day that passes." Joanna shrank back. She knew who "he" was, the father who had not wanted her, who had made Mama so unhappy. "Mama..." "Oh, God, how like him you are!" Clemence's eyes were not blind now; they were riveted on Joanna's face with an emotional intensity that terrified the child; she thought she could read revulsion in them, and she sobbed, "No, Mama, I'm not! Please, Mama, I'm not!"

— Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman

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THIS BROKEN JAW OF OUR LOST KINGDOMS

A playlist for Sharon Kay Penman's Welsh Princes Trilogy {Here Be Dragons, Falls The Shadow, The Reckoning}

"She must not laugh. If she did, she'd not be able to stop. Like her mother. So many years ago, but Joanna could still hear her, hear peal after peal of that shrill, hysterical laughter as her mother looked at her, at her bastard child, her 'mistake.' We pay and pay for our sins, she'd gasped. We pay and pay."

001. the rains of castomere by the national, 002. family tree (intro) by ethel cain, 003. mausoleum by rafferty, 004. what you done by lera lynn, 005. soldier, poet, king by hildegard von blingin', 006. queen of peace by florence + the machine, 007. foreigner's god by hozier, 008. thanatos by soap&skin, 009. a lyke wake dirge by matt berninger and andrew bird 010. no place to hide by jace everett, 011. kingdom fall by claire wyndham 012. who shall vigil stand by hildegard von blingin', 013. come what may by the last bison, 014. funeral bell by phildel, 015. family tree by tv on the radio, 016. jenny of oldstones by florence + the machine (L I S T E N)