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544 pages, Paperback
First published March 8, 2022
“I had defied the Prince of Princes, and all would see the consequences of that defiance.”
“A man needs more. A man must have a people, must belong somewhere. To someone. A man must have a family, born, chosen, or made.”
“Now hear this. The old words seemed to drift back to me on the wind, carried by the ocean airs from world to world. Here’s a lesson no tor or primate of the college will ever teach you, if it even can be taught. The world’s soft the way the ocean is. Ask any sailor what I mean. But even when it is at its most violent, Hadrian . . . focus on the beauty of it.”