Kattie

“He was watching me, his eyes as deep as earth.
"Will you come with me?" he asked.
The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to Troy and I would follow, even into death. "Yes," I whispered. "Yes.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“She rises on her toes and kisses his cheek. "You know what I'm gonna say now."

Zombie smiles. "He'll be fine, Cassie." He grabs her hand and squeezes hard. "With my life."

Her response is immediate and fierce. "Not with your life, Parish. With your death.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“Like most of my predecessors, I have hunted the unicorn chiefly in libraries, realizing the delightful absurdity of the task quite as fully as any one could point it out to me.”
― Odell Shepard, The Lore of the Unicorn: Historical Mythology

“His fingers touched the strings and all my thoughts were displaced. The sound was pure and sweet as water, bright as lemons. It was like no music I had ever heard before. It had warmth as a fire does, a texture and weight like polished ivory. It buoyed and soothed at once.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles