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#1

“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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#2

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

tags: quotes

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#3

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: inspirational, love

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#4

“There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#5

“He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: mythology, war

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#6

“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: achilles, love, never, patrochilles, patroclus

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#7

“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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#8

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability

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#9

“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

tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars

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#10

“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#11

“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#12

“The children, the veal, they stand very still because tenderness depends on how little the world touches you. To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#13

“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#14

“Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

tags: war, world-war-ii

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#15

“She held her breath in one hand and her suitcase in the other.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

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#16

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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#17

“A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

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#18

“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

tags: alone, man-s-heart, men, sad, violence, women

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#19

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: love

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#20

“I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

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#21

“Ma. You once told me that memory is a choice. But if you were god, you'd know it's a flood.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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#22

“To my daughter I will say, when the men come, set yourself on fire.”
― Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

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#23

“He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

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#24

“In the future . . . if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again . . . fall in love with me.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

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#25

“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#26

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: heartbreak, love, sad

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#27

“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: death, war

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#28

“The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#29

“It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.”
― Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#30

“When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: the-book-thief

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