Atlas Rùshuì

“...But how is there glory in taking a life? We die so easily.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“MEGARA: You love the light so much?
AMPHITRYION: I do, I love its hopes.”
― Euripides, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

“Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend.

Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood.

Theseus: Stain them, I don't care.”
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

“You imagine every twitch of their pain as your own; you take it into yourself and incorporate it into your being, and it wrenches at every lever of feeling till you cry, and you want to cry. You want to feel the vicious pain because it is the only metric of empathy you can offer.”
― Timothy Hickson, A Catalogue for the End of Humanity