In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. — Mary Renault Hatred Copy Share Image
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. — Mary Renault Boredom Copy Share Image
But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant. — Mary Renault Character Copy Share Image
“He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“That there are fashions in admiration and denigration is inevitable; they should not however be followed at the expense of truth.” — Mary Renault Admiration Copy Share Image
Do not believe that others will die, not you… I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Each man in his life honors, and imitates as well as he can, that god to whose choir he belonged, while he… — Mary Renault Bears Copy Share Image
“(Alexander)'Sometimes I forget all this for months on end. Sometimes I think of it day and night. Sometimes I think, unless I… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
