Nora Bromley

“grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.”
― Mary Renault, Fire from Heaven

“I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty.”
― Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim

“Shared pain was not lessened, but it was far easier to bear.”
― Kenley Davidson, Traitor's Masque

“There are always men who take their own measure against greatness, and hate it not for what it is, but for what they are. They can envy even the dead. So much Alexander saw. He did not understand, since it was not in him, the power such men have to rouse in others the sleeping envy they once had a decent shame of; to turn respect for excellence into hate. Nor did Kallisthenes understand it in himself. Vanity begets it, vanity covers it up.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy