Alexander

“It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.”
― Mary Renault, The King Must Die

“To hate excellence is to hate the gods.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

“One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.”
― Mary Renault, Fire from Heaven

“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