Indeed, he seemed utterly unaware of his effect on the boys around him.

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.

When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

She wants you to be a god, " I told him."I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

Patroclus, ' he said. He was always better with words than I.

For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty?

Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.

There is no honour in betraying your friends.

Fighting to fit in. Confidence is paper thin.

If you are a hope for someone, that’s very nice, but if you are a hope for everyone just like the Sun, that’s excellent!

Maybe I see myself with kids, given the right place and right moment, with the right person.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

I'm a GM in fantasy basketball and I'm a GM on PlayStation, so on PlayStation I probably would have got a little more, but this is real life, so I don't know.

I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way.

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, don not fault with others.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.