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“I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King.
And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

“You fight them, his father had said.

You don't trust them. His father had been right. And his father had been ready. Rabatians were cowards and deceivers, they should have scattered when their duplicitous attack met the full force of the Akielon army. But for some reason they hadn't fallen at the first sign of a real fight, they had stood firm, and shown metal, and, for hour upon hour, they had fought, until the Akielon lines had begun to slip and falter.

And their general wasn't the king, it was the twenty-five year old prince, holding the field.

Father, I can take him, he'd said.

Then go, his father had said, and bring
us back victory.”
― S.U. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two

“Although Adam suspected there was a god, he also suspected it didn't actually matter.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue