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

by Elodie Harper

it. All the words he uses to describe her—lovely, delicate, naive—she takes as instructions rather than compliments.

Her fear of losing his protection is as real as if she truly loved him.

true. Only fools think life is like a play, with any hope of holding on to your virtue.”

“First Writer: ‘Lovers, like bees, live a honeyed life.’ Second Writer: ‘I wish.’ ” —Pompeii graffiti exchange

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

“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

“Nothing can last for all time: When the sun has shone brightly it returns to the Ocean; The moon wanes, which recently was full. Even so the fierceness of Venus often becomes a puff of wind” —Pompeii graffiti

“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

“But tears cannot put out the flame; They inflame the face and melt the spirit” —Pompeii graffiti