“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.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all the forms of life; other are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“Instead, the terrain looked like Nebraska—perpetual plains that faded into the horizon. When I asked Taukane where the forest was, he said, simply, “Gone.”
― The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
― The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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