Danni Breedlove

“He had never been able to inhabit a moment of pleasure as simply and purely as Esen did. Just knowing that it was transient—that any moment would be drained of its sweetness and vividness once it became memory—made it bittersweet to him even as it was happening.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“There is this, too.” His hand was ceaseless now. “I know I have told you of this.” I closed my eyes. “Tell me again,” I said.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Patroclus. I have given enough to them. I will not give them this.” After that, there was nothing more to say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Perhaps she thought I hated her. She did not know that I almost asked him, a hundred times, to be a little kinder to her. You do not have to humiliate her so thoroughly, I thought. But it was not kindness he lacked; it was interest.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles