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“I could not make him a god," she says. Her jagged voice, rich with grief.
/But you made him./”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea