Payton

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

“But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“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

“I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe