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“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“We sainted St. Tammany (King Tamanend III) because he embodied moral perfection and every divine qualification that a deity could possess. I hold him in higher esteem than the saints of the Roman Catholic Church. He'll forever be the patron saint of America.”
― George Washington

“Es sollte echt ein Wort für dieses Gefühl geben“, sagte sie. „So was wie Euphancholie. Einerseits zerreißt’s dich vor Glück, gleichzeitig bist du schwermütig, weil du weißt, dass du was verlierst oder dieser Augenblick mal vorbei sein wird ... Dass alles mal vorbei sein wird.”
― Benedict Wells, Hard Land

“You threw me to the crows, but i turns out I prefer them to you.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe