A Song of War Quotes

“STEPHANIE THORNTON has been obsessed with history’s forgotten women since she was twelve. She is the critically acclaimed author of four novels about infamous women from the ancient world: The Secret History, Daughter of the Gods, The Tiger Queens, and The Conqueror’s Wife.”
― Kate Quinn, A Song of War: A Novel of Troy

“Cleopatra’s Moon and Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii”
― Kate Quinn, A Song of War: A Novel of Troy

“No, it’s the tin trade he wants to control and access to our strait and all the rest of the goods that flow though Troy.”
― Kate Quinn, A Song of War: A Novel of Troy

“Penthesilea knew what it was to cry that way, to pour out a river of tears so deep and fast it choked off breath but was still not deep enough to drown sorrow.”
― Kate Quinn, A Song of War: A Novel of Troy

“And then Priam wept.”
― Kate Quinn, A Song of War: A Novel of Troy

“Better the slave of a bad master, I’m told, than king of the dead.”
― Kate Quinn, A Song of War: A Novel of Troy

“He was a soldier, not a general; but”
― Kate Quinn, A Song of War: A Novel of Troy

“on the winds of war.”
― Kate Quinn, A Song of War: A Novel of Troy

“We all fight our own daemons.” Mine just happened to be louder than others.”
― Kate Quinn, A Song of War: A Novel of Troy

“for in drawing the nightmares, I might draw them out of me.”
― Kate Quinn, A Song of War: A Novel of Troy