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“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

“And it's impossible to say and even harder to feel.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“They don’t see that her tension and perfection are the only things holding her together.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles