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“The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to Troy and I could follow, even into death. Yes, I whispered. Yes.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I’m listening to someone give up. Someone I knew. Someone I liked.
I’m listening. But still, I’m too late.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse.

I am not a muse.

I am the somebody.

End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Those half-seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all. The sudden swoop of my stomach, the coursing anger. I was like a fish eyeing the hook.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles