“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
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“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“The thing about grace is that you don’t deserve it. You can’t earn it. You can only accept it. Or not.”
― These Silent Woods
― These Silent Woods
“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“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
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