One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once. - Mary Renault

"Speak for me, Nikeratos. Someone's soul is always listening." Someone's always is, I suppose, if one only knew. Plato never forgot it.

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

She stood laughing in the water. Her laughter made my backbone ripple. It had neither shame nor shamelessness; she laughed alone, please with her victory over strange monstrous things.