There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

At the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted a game, or water if he was thirsty; not by calculation, but in a constant awareness by which no smallest trifle was missed. Now, when he came down the stairs with a shut mouth and blue lines under his eyes, Hephaistion received some mute signal he understood, and fell into step beside him.

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.