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The Ides of April (Flavia Albia Mystery, #1) QUOTES

The Ides of April (Flavia Albia Mystery, #1) QUOTES

1 " Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's the tragedy of life. "

― Lindsey Davis , The Ides of April (Flavia Albia Mystery, #1)

2 " The grander the temple, the lousier its hangers-on. "

― Lindsey Davis , The Ides of April (Flavia Albia Mystery, #1)

3 " Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That’s the tragedy of life. "

― Lindsey Davis , The Ides of April (Flavia Albia Mystery, #1)

4 " He had the kind of personality that makes you think a boy will grow up to be a public torturer. However, "

― Lindsey Davis , The Ides of April (Flavia Albia Mystery, #1)

5 " Mathematics is a suspicious activity. All those hypotenuse drawings must be plans for assassination attempts. Algebra is treacherous code. When did you ever meet a student of infinitesimal calculus who didn’t harbour rabid ambitions to rule the world? And anyone who tells you Archimedes was killed at the capture of Syracuse by a soldier who didn’t know who he was, is ignorant of how military forces work. There will have been a secret order: man making diagrams in the dust equals number one target. "

― Lindsey Davis , The Ides of April (Flavia Albia Mystery, #1)

6 " By this evening, the mad murderer would have a golden alabastron containing a deadly potion made by Cappadocian dwarfs from a recipe handed down through thirty generations, to which there was no antidote except moonbeams, and he would identify himself by etching a Greek letter onto the foreheads of all his victims as they twitched and gasped their last. The Omega Killer had been born, and it was my fault. "

― Lindsey Davis , The Ides of April (Flavia Albia Mystery, #1)