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"i need to stop seeing every single big book i come across as a personal challenge to read it. i do not need to read 900 page books for no reason other than the fact that they’re 900+ pages long. i did this with les mis and now that i’ve started them i can’t just stop even though i struggle with big books because i have the attention span of a fish. someone stop me" — Sep 13, 2022 01:18PM
"i need to stop seeing every single big book i come across as a personal challenge to read it. i do not need to read 900 page books for no reason other than the fact that they’re 900+ pages long. i did this with les mis and now that i’ve started them i can’t just stop even though i struggle with big books because i have the attention span of a fish. someone stop me" — Sep 13, 2022 01:18PM
“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.
“Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.”
― The Song of Achilles
If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.
“Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.”
― The Song of Achilles
“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“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.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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