Jacqueline

“What had Deidameia thought would happen, I wondered, when she had her women dance for me? Had she really thought I would not know him? 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

“Strange that such a small kindness felt like grace.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“My consolation is that we will be together in the underworld. That we will meet again there, if not in this life. I would not wish to be there without her.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I don't like this."
"To be fair, Matthias, you don't like much.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom