“He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“And so the spring buds burst, and so I gaze,
And so the blossoms fall, and so my days ...”
―
And so the blossoms fall, and so my days ...”
―
“This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“]
]you will remember
]for we in our youth
did these things
yes many and beautiful things
]
]
]”
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
]you will remember
]for we in our youth
did these things
yes many and beautiful things
]
]
]”
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
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