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61 " Se preguntó por qué la gente a quien uno tenía un afecto más inocente era la que con tanta frecuencia exigía de uno el más atroz engaño. "
― Mary Renault , The Charioteer
62 " Querida madre:Me he enamorado. Ahora sé una cosa de mí mismo que hace años que sospechaba, si hubiera tenido la sinceridad de admitirlo. Debería sentir miedo y vergüenza, pero no es así. Puesto que no veo esperanza terrena alguna para esta relación, debería estar muy deprimido, pero no lo estoy. Ahora sé por qué nací, por qué me ha ocurrido todo lo que me ha ocurrido, por qué soy un tullido, porque ello me ha traído al lugar oportuno en el momento oportuno. De ser necesario volvería a pasarlo todo ahora que sé que era para esto. "
63 " Uno no teme una conversación simplemente por el miedo a que se vuelva intensa. Pero la intensidad puede constituir un poderoso disolvente de superficies protectoras finas y frágiles. "
64 " Sintió ese tipo de falsa resignación que puede engañarnos cuando contemplamos los contratiempos en un momento en el que no los experimentamos. "
65 " Solo hay un sobresalto peor que el totalmente inesperado, el esperado para el cual uno se ha negado a prepararse. "
66 " True friends share everything, except the past before they met. "
― Mary Renault , Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
67 " The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes. "
― Mary Renault
68 " One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk. "
69 " Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal. "
70 " 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 (Alexander the Great, #2)
71 " I saw death come for you, and I had no philosophy. "
― Mary Renault , The Last of the Wine
72 " It's not what one is, it's what one does with it. "
73 " Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river. "
74 " In hatred is love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. "
― Mary Renault , The Mask of Apollo
75 " He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support. "
76 " In seven years, thought Laurie, every cell in one's body has been replaced, even our memories live in a new brain. That is not the face I saw, and these are not the eyes I saw with. Even our selves are not the same, but only a consequence of the selves we had then. Yet I was there and I am here; and this man, who is sometimes what I remember and sometimes a stranger I met at a party the other day, is also to himself the I who was there: his mind in its different skull has travelled back to a place his living feet never visited; and the pain he felt then he can feel again. "
77 " It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies "
― Mary Renault , The Bull from the Sea (Theseus, #2)
78 " It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush. "
79 " Nothing will change, Alexias. No, that is false; there is change whenever there is life, and already we are not the two who met in Taureas' palaestra. But what kind of fool would plant an apple-slip, to cut it down at the season when the fruit is setting? Flowers you can get every year, but only with time the tree that shades your doorway and grows into the house with each year's sun and rain. "
80 " He was filled with a vast sense of the momentous, of unknown mysteries. He did not know what he should demand of himself, nor did it seem to matter, for he had not chosen this music he moved to, it had chosen him. "