John Saint Ryan: Fergus

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Fergus : Doyle's gone. What are we going to do about the children?

  Conor : The orphans can stay. The ones with families, we can take them home.

  Fergus : I'd like to do that - take them home.

  Conor : Just you?

  Fergus : Just me.

  Conor : It will be a lot of riding and a lot of work taking care of them.

  Fergus : I'd welcome it.

  Conor : Are you sure?

  Fergus : Aye... I'm a father now.

• [first lines] 

  Fergus : You drag me all the way to the next village, tell me to beat their great warrior...

  Conor : You were trying to impress a girl. And I didn't say *beat* him, I said *best* him.

  Fergus : You wanted me to beat him. I could see it in your eyes.

  Conor : I wanted to show strength, not humiliate their champion. They had to reject the whole confederation of tribes just to save face.

  Fergus : He called me a cretin.

  Conor : He was right.

  Fergus : Nobody calls me a cretin. I am not a cretin.

  Conor : When you threaten the whole idea of unity to avenge a petty insult, you're a cretin.

  Fergus : Is that what a cretin is?

• [discussing Molly] 

  Conor : [imitating Fergus]  A very good heart.

  Fergus : I'm just taking your advice.

  Conor : What advice?

  Fergus : About having a woman?

  Conor : Her?

  Fergus : You think she'd prefer you?

  Conor : You're old enough to be her father.

  Fergus : Women like a man with a little wear and tear on him.

  Conor : [running his eyes up and down Fergus's body]  Up to a point.

• [Fergus is visibally effected by Molly tale of how her village was destroyed] 

  Molly : I thought you said you could take it.

  Fergus : I thought I could.

  Molly : Warriors - all scars on the outside and mush in the middle... Women, of course, are the opposite.