Rome Quotes

“But if you don’t know by now that the god’s name and shape is a shield, a bright pattern to catch the eyes and deflect them from the greater truth behind, then you shouldn’t be here.”
― M.C. Scott, The Emperor's Spy

“The living deserve more of our consideration than the dead,’ he said, as if that last thought lay in common between them. ‘The living know pain and hurt and heartbreak and wish only to escape them, while the dead remember these things with nostalgia.”
― M.C. Scott, The Emperor's Spy

“We all make mistakes that in later adulthood we look back on with dismay.”
― M.C. Scott, The Emperor's Spy