Sometimes things are easier if there isn’t anyone to know how you’re feeling. - Mary Renault

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

I stretched out my hand to Poseidon, but he sent no sign. He was away perhaps, shaking the earth somewhere. All about us I felt another power, dark, past man's thoughts, giver of desolation or of joy, she who can cherish or cast away but abides no question.