Certainly, I thought, Dion means to have his way. But I suppose that's what makes a king. - Mary Renault

They say women forget the pain of childbirth. Well, they are in nature's hand. No hand took mine. I was a body of pain in an earth and sky of darkness. It will take death to make me forget.

As i was beginning to understand, this kind of love was foreign ground to him. I may add that he never did, as far as I know, accept a suitor.... Sometimes indeed I asked myself whether he lacked the capacity for loving men at all; but I liked him too well to offend him by such a question.

There is truth and truth,’ said the priest of Delos. ‘It is true after its kind.