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21 " There is no such thing as unrequited love; the phrase ought to be stricken from the lexicon. Love is a thing shared, an intertwining of essential separateness into something not quite alone. There is nothing like it under the heavens. Like bread, it will not be made with flour or water alone; the recipe requires both. Guarding each other’s vulnerability provides the yeast that makes it rise, and salt from the tears that caring brings lends the finishing touch. "
― Andrew Levkoff , The Other Alexander (The Bow of Heaven, #1)
22 " Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy! "
― Andrew Levkoff , A Mixture of Madness (The Bow of Heaven, #2)
23 " When I asked him how this cramping might affect his sword arm, he assured me it was only the narrow grip of the writing instruments that troubled him. “If we fought with pens,” he said, “I would be forced to fall upon mine. "
24 " Why must there always be a price to pay for every indulgence, and why must it so often be withdrawn from the bankrupt accounts of the innocent? "
25 " You Romans wash too much to be true men. Washing is for women, to clean our breeches and our vests. And even they barely let their toes touch the stream! Hah! "
26 " We often find ourselves at ease with that with which we are most familiar, regardless of whether or not the trait serves us well in the end. Is that not yet another example of how we enslave ourselves? "
27 " Illicit sex, Marcus, drives at least half the decisions of the modern world, wouldn’t you agree? "
28 " Oh, I take your meaning now, Marcus,” he said, as if comprehension had just dawned. “You would have me harken back to a time when the outcome of a contest was not known until after the voting. How nostalgic. "
29 " King Abgarus asked, “If I may, general, what weapon do you prefer?” Crassus took no more than a moment to answer. “Overwhelming odds. "
30 " You’d be surprised what people will accept once you insist two or three times running that they have seen what you tell them they have seen. "
31 " One can get past just about anything, given enough time, even when one shouldn’t. "
32 " If you arrive for a meeting with a man you do not trust, and the man you do not trust does not arrive, do not trust the man who first arrives at the meeting. "