Ashley

“Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.”
― John Waters

“I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S.
"Go," she says. "He waits for you."

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

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles