For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.

- Theodora

Royalty is a fine burial shroud.

- Theodora

I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.

- Theodora

Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu!

- Theodora

It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing …

- Theodora

For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.

- Theodora