“If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.” — Marcus Valerius Martial Quote

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.

Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to live without you? It was not a matter of the body; his body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude.