Mary Renault - Love Quotes

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In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

Mary Renault

Each man in his life honors, and imitates as well as he can, that god to whose choir he belonged, while he is uncorrupted in his first incarnation here; and in the fashion he has thus learned, he bears himself to his beloved as well as to the rest. So, then, each chooses from among the beautiful a love conforming to his kind, and then, as if his chosen were his god, he sets him up and robes him for worship.

Mary Renault

He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he too is released from pain, and when apart, he longs as he himself is longed for; for reflected in his heart is love's image, which is love's answer. But he calls it, and believes it, not love but friendship…

Mary Renault

Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.

Mary Renault