Aztecs Quotes

“The magic here is not spectacular courage in one or two battles but the glamour of commitment to death at the peak of youth and beauty: the poignancy of the exhib-itionistic narcissism of youth determined once and for all on magnificent expenditure rather than slow wasting and remorseless physical deterioration.”
― Inga Clendinnen, Aztecs: An Interpretation

“The children were kept by the priests for some weeks before their deaths (those kindergartens of doomed infants are difficult to contemplate).”
― Inga Clendinnen, Aztecs: An Interpretation