Lisa

“I'm not afraid of anything now. I'm not scared of anyone. I'm not lonely anymore. I finally understand. I'm in love. We're in love. That means we'll meet again. I'm sure of it. And so I'll live. I'll survive this. No matter what happens, even if the stars fall, I will live.”
― Makoto Shinkai, Your name.

“In later life, wherever I went, I always looked for the women of Troy who'd been scattered all over the Greek world. That skinny old woman with brown-spotted hands shuffling to answer her master's door, can that really be Queen Hecuba, who, as a young and beautiful girl, newly married, had led the dancing in King Priam's hall? Or that girl in the torn and shabby dress, hurrying to fetch water from the well, can that be one of Priam's daughters? Or the ageing concubine, face paint flaking over the wrinkles in her skin, can that really be Andromache, who once, as Hector's wife, stood proudly on the battlements of Troy with her baby son in her arms?”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“War has an appetite
For human goodness but it won't touch the bad.”
― Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes

“In the end, if you change the enemy enough, if you wear them down, perhaps losing is good enough.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts