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“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“You may forget but
let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us”
― Sappho, The Art of Loving Women

“Sweet mother, I cannot weave –
slender Aphrodite has overcome me
with longing for a girl.”
― Sappho, Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works

“In the crooks of your body, I find my religon.”
― Sappho

“What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.”
― Sappho

“Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.”
― Sappho, Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho

“Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.”
― Sappho

“I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we are.”
― Sappho, Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments

“Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.”
― Sappho

“I know not what to do, my mind is divided”
― sappho

“I want to say something but shame
prevents me

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things
and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say,
shame would not hold down your eyes
but rather you would speak about what is just”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“one day I am gonna grow wings
a chemical reaction
hysterical but useless
hysterical and a let down”
― radiohead

“You want me, well fucking well come and find me
I'll be waiting with a gun and a pack of sandwiches
And nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing”
― Radiohead

“If you'd been a dog,
They would have drowned you at birth.”
― Radiohead

“But if I gave up on being pretty, I wouldn't know how to be alive. I should move to a brand new city and teach myself how to die.”
― Mitski

“Mom, am I still young? Can I dream for a few months more?”
― Mitski

“And did you know the liberty bell is a replica, silently housed in its original walls?”
― mitski

“I always knew the world moves on
I just didn't know it would go without me”
― mitski

“No, I've been calm all my life! If I don't do something, it's gonna kill me!”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society