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“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

“Iain,' he says softly. 'If you're in heaven, I cannot let you go. I keep seeing you, trying to put you back in the world by sheer force of desire. I saw you in the Black Knight, and I feel like every step I make in this palace I am walking in your footprints. If you really are here, please know that I still love you more than anything in the world, and would make any sacrifice to have you with me again.' He shuts his eyes. 'And if you are but a spirit, protecting me, thank you for that. I have needed it, I have always needed you.”
― Alex de Campi, The Scottish Boy

“Why would anyone love a monster?' asked Perseus.
'Who are you to decide who is worthy of love?' said Hermes.
'I mean, I wasn't...'
'And who are you to decide who is a monster?' added the messenger god.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind: Medusa's Story

“The world is not very helpful to a smart girl. More often it will try to force you inside a box. But I urge you not to listen.”
― Alexene Farol Follmuth, My Mechanical Romance

“Crooked Warden,” said Locke, “men are stupid. Protect us from ourselves. If you can’t, let it be quick and painless.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“The boy laughs, sharp and hollow. ‘You killed them all and you don’t even know my name. Fuck you. Death. That’s my name.”
― Alex de Campi, The Scottish Boy

“You're dead, and I'm the worst kind of alive.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“Everything I needed, you already gave me. You let me stay.”
― Nora Sakavic, The King's Men

“Look for us in history books and you’ll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends, and you might just find us celebrated.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“If it means losing you, then no”
― Nora Sakavic, The King's Men

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

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

“So, being both depressed and anxious at the same time is absolutely wild.”
― A.L. Graziadei, Icebreaker

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“But that's the thing," I say. My voice shakes. "Nothing makes me happy. Not really. It's not even that I don't like hockey, it's just... I don't like anything. Not enough to matter. All I ever wanted with hockey was a choice. I wanted to come with you when you moved. I didn’t care about the best opportunities. I was ten. I wanted my family. You could've retired in Buffalo, but you chose to come here and keep playing. You chose to leave me. And when you did finaly retire, instead of coming back, you stayed here.”
― A.L. Graziadei, Icebreaker

“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

“I just want you to know I still think of you,' Harry says, his voice cracking. 'Every goddman day”
― Alex de Campi, The Scottish Boy

“But this universe is the only one that matters, and I have one last question for you: I didn't get our history wrong, did I?”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“Andrew kissed him like this was a fight with their lives on the line, like his world stopped and started with Neil’s mouth.”
― Nora Sakavic, The King's Men

“The world is not very helpful to a smart girl,” says Ms. Voss. “More often it will try to force you inside a box. But I urge you not to listen.”
― Alexene Farol Follmuth, My Mechanical Romance

“It feels like I left you yesterday, 'Harry says. 'As if the years apart existed only as a terrible dream.”
― Alex de Campi, The Scottish Boy

“We were something, but history isn’t enough to keep something alive forever.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“You are", he says, "the absolute worst idea I've ever had.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
― Mary Shelley

“Write what should not be forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende

“I found someone better,” he hisses. “But God was cruel and made him incapable of loving me back. So second best will have to do.”
― K. Webster, Wicked Lies Boys Tell

“Every universe I’ve created lately, your face keeps popping up in it.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“But in them all, you and I are more than history. I have to believe these universes exist; it’s the only way to manage the suffering here. Alternate versions of me are perfectly happy with alternate versions of you, because you’re alive.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“Every universe I’ve created lately, your face keeps popping up in it. And I thought that if you can’t be cool with that, then I wouldn’t hate you, but I might need some time for myself until we’ve had enough distance that I can imagine made-up worlds without you automatically appearing.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“This,” Neil flicked his finger to indicate the two of them, “isn’t worthless.”
“There is no ‘this’. This is nothing.”
“And I am nothing,” Neil prompted. When Andrew gestured confirmation, Neil said, “And as you’ve always said, you want nothing.”
Andrew stared stone-faced back at him.”
― Nora Sakavic, The King's Men