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    Madeline Miller
    “I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S.
    "Go," she says. "He waits for you."

    In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, afterlife, death, greek-mythology, grief, love, mythology, patroclus
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    Madeline Miller
    “That is — your friend?"
    "Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, death, death-of-a-loved-one, greek, greek-mythology, lgbt, lgbtq, love, mythology, patroclus, trojan-war
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    Madeline Miller
    “Name one hero who was happy.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: heroes
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    Madeline Miller
    “Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, dead, hero, patrochilles, patroclus
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    Madeline Miller
    “We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, patroclus, the-song-of-achilles
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    Madeline Miller
    “Have you no more memories?"
    I am made of memories.
    "Speak, then.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: love, patrochilles
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    Madeline Miller
    “I am air and thought and can do nothing.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps you should get some new stories, so I don’t fucking kill myself of boredom.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Madeline Miller
    “Priam's eyes find the other body, mine, lying on the bed. He hesitates a moment. 'That is --- your friend?'

    'Philtatos,' Achilles says, sharply. Most beloved. 'Best of men, and slaughtered by your son.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: i-started-sobbing
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    Madeline Miller
    “Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: reputation, wealth
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    Madeline Miller
    “For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty?”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: beauty, devotion, grief, love, patrochilles, support
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    Madeline Miller
    “He waits for you.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Madeline Miller
    “The never-ending ache of love and sorrow.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: historical-fiction
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    Madeline Miller
    “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Laini Taylor
    “Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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    Laini Taylor
    “Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love.

    It did not end well.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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    Laini Taylor
    “It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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    Laini Taylor
    “She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
    tags: fantasy, young-adult
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    Laini Taylor
    “Love is a luxury."
    "No. Love is an element."
    An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
    tags: akiva, karou, love, romance
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    Laini Taylor
    “You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."

    “Beautiful and full of monsters?"

    “All the best stories are.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: fantasy, stories, storytelling, young-adult
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    Laini Taylor
    “A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight
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    Laini Taylor
    “Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
    tags: accord, harmony, peace, war
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    Laini Taylor
    “How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse?”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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  • #24
    Jay Kristoff
    “Just so you know, if it comes down to cannibalism, you get eaten first.”
    ― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight
    tags: mia
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    Jay Kristoff
    “Blessings and curses fall on the wicked and the just alike. Fair is a fairy tale. Nothing's claimed by those who don't want it, and nothing's kept by those who won't fight for it. So let's fight. Fuck the gods. Fuck it all. Let's take the world by the throat and make it give us what we want.”
    ― Jay Kristoff, Darkdawn
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    Jay Kristoff
    “My name is Mia Corvere. Blade of the Red Church. Champion of the Venatus Magni. Chosen of the Dark Mother and Queen of Scoundrels. Never call me girl again.”
    ― Jay Kristoff, Darkdawn
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    Jay Kristoff
    “Death is the only promise we all keep.”
    ― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave
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    Jay Kristoff
    “When you take a person out of the world, you don't just take them, do you? You take everything they were, too.”
    ― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave
    tags: arena, death, fights, life, memories
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    Jay Kristoff
    “She looked to Mister Kindly, sitting on the road beside her.
    'Not. A. Fucking. Word.'
    '. . . meow . . .' he said.”
    ― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight
    tags: mademelaugh
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    Jay Kristoff
    “Our scars are just gifts from our enemies...reminding us they weren’t good enough to kill us.”
    ― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave
    tags: godsgrave, mia-corvere, nevernight, stab-stab-stab, stabby-bitches
    40 likes



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