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“The beginning is always today.”
― Mary Shelley

“I suppose we decided to be girls because being boys seems to require giving up half your brain cells.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A last request—grant it, please.
Never bury my bones apart from yours, Achilles,
let them lie together . . .
just as we grew up together in your house”
― Homer, The Iliad

“My friend Patroclus, whom I loved, is dead.
I loved him more than any other comrade.
I loved him like my head, my life, myself.
I lost him, killed him.
[. . .]
. . .my Patroclus, son of Menoetius.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“O Patroclus, I wish to Father Zeus and to Athena and Apollo that all of them, Greeks and Trojans alike, were dead, and only you and I were left to rip Ilion down, stone by sacred stone.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“My life is the crown, yours is politics and I won’t trade one cage for another. I can love you and want you and still not want that life, and it doesn’t make me a liar. It makes me a man with some infinitesimal shred of self-preservation”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot