“When a war was ended, the men lost their lives. But the women lost everything else.”
― A Thousand Ships
― A Thousand Ships
“It does hurt, I whispered. It should hurt. She isn't a footnote, she's a person. And she - all the Trojan women - should be memorialised as much as any other person.”
― A Thousand Ships
― A Thousand Ships
“I honestly have no idea how to live without you.”
― New Moon
― New Moon
“After all the thousand times I’ve told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?...I could see it in your eyes, that you honestly believed that I didn’t want you anymore. The most absurd, ridiculous concept—as if there were any way that I could exist without needing you!”
― New Moon
― New Moon
“But this is a women's war, just as much as it is the men's, and the poet will look upon their pain - the pain of the women who have always been relegated to the edges of the story, victims of men, survivors of men, slaves of men - and he will tell it, or he will tell nothing at all. They have waited long enough for their turn.”
― A Thousand Ships
― A Thousand Ships
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