The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy #2)

by Elodie Harper

forgive you this time,” she says, her eyes still closed and her head tilted back, resting against the wall. “But not if you forget yourself again. The gods raised you to freedom. Treating slaves as equals only lowers you back to the gutter you came from.”

“All this disorder you’ve brought to the house,” he says, his voice hard. “It’s like you’re determined to drag the brothel back here with you.”

“None of it counts, though,” he says, his voice even more earnest. “Not if you didn’t choose.”

“Looks only last so long, lovers are just as bad. But a closet full of coin never made any woman cry.

It hurts thinking about the gulf between what she feels and what others see.

“Death is Nature’s gift. It’s better to know that suffering ends. Once we accept this life is all we have, we can make better use of it.”

“He always said there was no book so bad that some good could not be got out of it.” —Pliny the Younger, on his uncle, Pliny the Elder

“Show me a man who isn’t a slave; one is a slave to sex, another to money, another to ambition; all are slaves to hope or fear.” —Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Perhaps you shouldn’t have discarded her so easily. There is always a price to pay for underestimating a woman.”