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“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“It was their favorite bitter joke: those who fight against prophecy only draw it more tightly around their throats.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I had no right to claim him, I know it. But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow. I would have done that toil a thousand times to keep such power in my hands.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He knew, but it was not enough. The sorrow was so large it threatened to tear through my skin. When he died, all things swift and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body and spirit. To get used to the life you'll most likely be leading soon, get rid of your low-class trappings.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Sweets to the sweet, farewell! I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife; I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid, And not have strewed thy grave.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Thine face is not worth sunburning.”
― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

“Hearts Live By Being Wounded”
― Oscar Wilde

“She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.”
― Oscar Wilde

“As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Anybody can have common sense, povided that they have no imagination”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“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

“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles