Thorny

“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.
“Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan