As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families—they would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence.
“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“And just like that, my mind draws a new connection between the characters. Sometimes it really does feel like a curse, the meaning I can attach to anything.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
“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
“I am made of memories.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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