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Pat Barker
“As later Priam comes secretly to the enemy camp to plead with Achilles for the return of his son Hector's body, he says: "'I do what no man before me has ever done, I kiss the hands of the man who killed my son."
Those words echoed round me, as I stood in the storage hut, surrounded on all sides by the wealth Achilles had plundered from burning cities. I thought: "And I do what countless women before me have been forced to do. I spread my legs for the man who killed my husband and my brothers.”
Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

Emily Brontë
“She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.”
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë
“They forgot everything the minute they were together again.”
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë
“The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.”
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë
“He’s more myself than I am”
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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