"Julian is much admired to this day, though not for his pholosophy. Julia is admired because he was young and handsome and the most successful general of our century."
— Priscus Chapter 1, Page 7

"You're no loss, you little ape! But why do I have to die?"
— Gallus, brother of Julian
Chapter 3, Page 31

"But I should like to be a philosopher or a rhetorician. Apparently, I have no gift for soldiering."
— Julian
Chapter 4, Page 49

"My only plot is how to survive."
— Julian
Chapter 5, Page 81

"Don't you realize - can't you tell just by looking at me, my dear wise old Priscus - that not a day has passed in twenty years I haven't wished I were dead?"
— Macrina
Chapter 7, Page 157

"I wanted to reach out and take his hand and tell him not to fear me, but I did not dare. Neither of us was...