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1 " He doesn't need to tend her, because she hunts her own prey. He doesn't need to shield her, because she kills her own enemies. He doesn't need to look for her, because she's always at his side. "
― Kate Quinn , Lady of the Eternal City (The Empress of Rome, #4)
2 " Annia of the red braid and the ferocious scowl and the long, long limbs. Annia Galeria Faustina..."Mine," I whispered, "Mine "
3 " But if men are the makers and breakers of empires, then women are the makers and breakers of men. "
4 " Vix watched you like a lion watches a lioness.” “And how does a lion watch a lioness?” Sabina didn’t even try to pretend nonchalance this time. “He doesn’t need to tend her, because she hunts her own prey. He doesn’t need to shield her, because she kills her own enemies. He doesn’t need to look for her, because she’s always at his side. "
5 " Even when she was just a flutter inside me, I loved her. Because she is ours. "
6 " Pin all your impatience on growing up, she thought, and then you learn it gets no better when you’re grown. "
7 " Oh, Hell's gates!" Annia cried, borrowing Vix's favorite curse. "
8 " Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. —MARCUS AURELIUS "
9 " of the dead is retained in the memory of "
10 " Hatred doesn't lie. Hatred doesn't tell soothing stories. You'll tell me true.' ~ Hadrian "
11 " Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. —MARCUS AURELIUS "
12 " If any be angry, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone, "
13 " Sh’ma Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Ehad, "
14 " He’s to rename Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina, did you hear? "
15 " Greek culture.” A culture of soft women and womanish men, as far as I was concerned, and Antinous’s current status didn’t exactly contradict me. “The Jews have their own way of doing things, you know that. "
16 " The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. —MARCUS AURELIUS "
17 " It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. —MARCUS AURELIUS "
18 " Syria Palestina.” The passion went out of Hadrian’s voice as soon as they left the subject of his dead lover. “There is no more land named Judaea. I have redrawn the borders and renamed the entire province. "
