Quotes from book

Fire from Heaven

“True friends share everything, except the past before they met.”

Mary Renault book Fire from Heaven

Source: Fire from Heaven

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

Mary Renault book Fire from Heaven

Source: Fire from Heaven

“He had come back a man, and faithless like a man. He knew that he had longed for her; that true friends share everything, except the past before they met. If only she would weep, even that, and let him comfort her; but she would not humble herself before a man. if only he would run to her side and cling to her; but his manhood was hard-won, no mortal should make him a child again.”

Mary Renault book Fire from Heaven

Source: Fire from Heaven (1969), p. 187

“Do not believe that others will die, not you…. I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.”

Mary Renault book Fire from Heaven

Fire from Heaven (1969)