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It is so difficult—at least, I find it difficult—to understand people who speak the truth.”
“he gathered antigonê close in his arms again. choking, his blood bright red on her white cheek. and now he lies dead with the dead, and she is his at last, his bride in the houses of the dead.”
― The Oedipus Cycle
― The Oedipus Cycle
“If you have documented a revolution, how can you bring yourself to capture anything else on those same streets where your brothers stained the asphalt with their lives?”
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
“what if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“The only reason anything matters is because it ends,' he says. 'I wouldn't hold you so tightly now if I thought we could be here forever.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
“Well, if that's suffering, he thinks, let me suffer. Yes. To love whoever I have left. And if ever I lose someone, let me descend into a futile and prolonged rage, yes, despair, wanting to break things, furniture, appliances, wanting to get into fights, to scream, to walk in front of a bus, yes. Let me suffer, please. To love just these few people, to know myself capable of that, I would suffer every day of my life.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
Lily M ❀’s 2025 Year in Books
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