The burly redhead is probably assessing whether he could take Ethan out if the need arose. I did him a small favor a couple of years ago, and now it seems he’ll protect me with his life. Humans and their sentimentality.
“We think of all those we have loved and still love, and it is the eternalness of that love that brings them to this place at this time. Our remembrances do not detract from our joy but reinforce it.”
― Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
― Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
“Camilla, we did it right, didn't we?" Palamedes said, and now Nona knew he wasn't speaking to anyone else in the universe. "We had something very nearly perfect... the perfect friendship, the perfect love. I cannot imagine reaching the end of this life and having any regrets, so long as I had been allowed to experience being your adept.”
― Nona the Ninth
― Nona the Ninth
“There is a noise that is different to grief. Sadness wails and cries and lets loose a sound to the heavens like a baby calling for its mother. That kind of noisy grief is hopeful. It believes that things can be put right, or that help can come. There is a different kind of sound to that. Babies left alone too long do not even cry. They become very still and quiet. They know no one is coming.”
― The Power
― The Power
“As had happened with Julius Caesar, it turned out that the people of Rome were actually quite keen on Gaius and were not fans of presumptuous senators and magistrates making unilateral decisions about the nature of Roman government with swords. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, they believed, not from some farcical bloody murder. Strange men in corridors distributing stab wounds was no basis for a system of government.”
― A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
― A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
“not one girl I think
who looks on the light of the sun
will ever
have wisdom
like this”
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
who looks on the light of the sun
will ever
have wisdom
like this”
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
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