“There's something magical about song and story when they're given, something unique.”
― All the Murmuring Bones
― All the Murmuring Bones
“They came back
To widows,
To fatherless children,
To screams, to sobbing.
The men came back
As little clay jars
Full of sharp cinders.”
― The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
To widows,
To fatherless children,
To screams, to sobbing.
The men came back
As little clay jars
Full of sharp cinders.”
― The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
“And they say to us that we're never at risk,
sheltered at home, while they fight with spears.
How wrong they are: I'd rather three times over
stand behind a shield than give birth once.”
― The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes
sheltered at home, while they fight with spears.
How wrong they are: I'd rather three times over
stand behind a shield than give birth once.”
― The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes
“This scent had a freshness, but not the freshness of limes or pomegranates, not the freshness of myrrh or cinnamon bark or curly mint or birch or camphor or pine needles, not that of a May rain or a frosty wind or of well water... and at the same time it had warmth, but not as bergamot, cypress, or musk has, or jasmine or daffodils, not as rosewood has or iris... This scent was a blend of both, of evanescence and substance, not a blend, but a unity, although slight and frail as well, and yet solid and sustaining, like a piece of thin, shimmering silk... and yet again not like silk, but like pastry soaked in honey-sweet milk - and try as he would he couldn't fit those two together: milk and silk! This scent was inconceivable, indescribable, could not be categorized in any way - it really ought not to exist at all. And yet there it was as plain and splendid as day.”
― Perfume The Story of a Murderer
― Perfume The Story of a Murderer
“let us live like flowers
wild and beautiful
and drenched in sun”
― I Saw You As A Flower: A Poetry Collection
wild and beautiful
and drenched in sun”
― I Saw You As A Flower: A Poetry Collection
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