# The Pillars of the Earth ![rw-book-cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61wbL%2BmzijL._SL200_.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Ken Follett]] - Full Title: The Pillars of the Earth - Category: #books ## Highlights - If earls’ daughters were allowed to marry whom they please, we’d all be ruled by strolling minstrels and dark-eyed outlaws.” ([Location 285](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003TO5GXU&location=285)) - That was not the end of the problems, but it was the beginning of solutions. ([Location 1787](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003TO5GXU&location=1787))