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“I could not make him a god," she says. Her jagged voice, rich with grief.
/But you made him./”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Were you in love with him?'
'Yes,' I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. 'Yes, I was.' It's not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“By the time that wretched summer term ended, the only person Remus despised more than Sirius was himself, for continuing to love him just the same.”
― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes

“You were real to me. Sometimes I thought you were the only real thing.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains