Emily Cullen

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“It is through the collaboration of all these factors, of course, that patriarchy is enforced: an elegant machinery whose pistons fire silently inside their own minds, and whose gleaming gears we mistake for our own jewelry.”
― Melissa Febos, Girlhood

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles