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“their heart grew cold
they let their wings down”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“Something about this story now put the woman in mind of how she had been at another point in her life, when she was falling out of love with a separated man who had said he wanted her to live with him, a man who often said the opposite of what he felt, as though the saying of it would make it true, or hide the fact that it was not.

'I love you,' he often said. 'There is nothing I would not do for you,' he often said also.”
― Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day

“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“may you sleep on the breast of your delicate friend”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho