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    K. Arsenault Rivera
    “An eye is not an essential thing. I was born with two; I can live with one. But a person can have only one soul, and you are mine”
    ― K. Arsenault Rivera, The Tiger’s Daughter
    tags: love, soul
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    K. Arsenault Rivera
    “And suffering is not a contest. Losing a limb, losing a horse, losing a friend- the pain's different, but the crying's the same”
    ― K. Arsenault Rivera, The Phoenix Empress
    tags: grief, grief-and-loss, suffering
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    K. Arsenault Rivera
    “This life of hers is wind; how can she be expected to contain all of it?”
    ― K. Arsenault Rivera, The Warrior Moon
    tags: life, life-quotes
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    K. Arsenault Rivera
    “I was an arrow trembling against a bowstring, and you were pulling me back”
    ― K. Arsenault Rivera, The Tiger’s Daughter
    tags: love, metaphor
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    Madeline Miller
    “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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    K. Arsenault Rivera
    “Children remember who showed them kindness when the world tried to make them cruel.”
    ― K. Arsenault Rivera, The Tiger’s Daughter
    tags: childhood
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    K. Arsenault Rivera
    “A strange thing happens when one speaks aloud: words take on their own meaning. They move in through the listener's ears and make themselves at home, decorating their meaning with whatever memories they find lying around.”
    ― K. Arsenault Rivera, The Tiger’s Daughter
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    K. Arsenault Rivera
    “Funny how you can hate a poem until the day you relate to it. Then it becomes your favorite”
    ― K. Arsenault Rivera, The Tiger’s Daughter
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  • #10
    Sappho
    “someone will remember us
    I say
    even in another time”
    ― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
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    K. Arsenault Rivera
    “Yet it is not slander if it is true, and the truth lends bravery to cowards”
    ― K. Arsenault Rivera, The Warrior Moon
    tags: truth-quotes
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    Sappho
    “Sweet mother, I cannot weave –
    slender Aphrodite has overcome me
    with longing for a girl.”
    ― Sappho, Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works
    tags: gay, relatable
    538 likes

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  • #13
    Madeline Miller
    “I am made of memories.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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    Madeline Miller
    “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: death, death-of-a-loved-one, love
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    Madeline Miller
    “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: inspirational, love
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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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    Madeline Miller
    “Name one hero who was happy.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: heroes
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    Madeline Miller
    “I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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  • #19
    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
    6662 likes

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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
    635 likes

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  • #21
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy
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    J.M. Barrie
    “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
    ― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: barrie, belief, fantasy, flying, imagination, kensington-gardens, london, magic, neverland, park, peter-pan, scotland, self-confidence
    4226 likes

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  • #23
    K. Arsenault Rivera
    “It is easier to do something unpleasant when you are doing it for someone else's sake”
    ― K. Arsenault Rivera, The Warrior Moon
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    Sophie Gonzales
    “I may only get one life, but if I had the choice, any choice in the matter at all, I would spend the rest of it kissing her- every wretched second I have left- just so I would never have to face breaking apart for the last time, knowing that eventually even the memory of her taste will be lost to me.”
    ― Sophie Gonzales, Nobody in Particular
    tags: love, queer, sapphic
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