“...I want to be fearless and free. It's just life, Will. It'II be over before we know it.”
― Five Feet Apart
― Five Feet Apart
“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
“Conoces esa sensación -explicó-, cuando estás leyendo un libro y sabes que va a ser una tragedia; cuando puedes notar cómo se acerca el frío y la oscuridad, ver cómo la red se va cerrando sobre los personajes que viven y respiran en las páginas. Pero estás atado a la historia como si estuvieras atado detrás de un carruaje, y no puedes soltarte ni cambiar el rumbo.”
― Clockwork Princess
― Clockwork Princess
“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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