“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“They all shared a certain coolness, a cruel, mannered charm which was not modern in the least but had the strange cold breath of the ancient world : they were magnificent creatures, such eyes, such hands, such looks - sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Dorian looked at the carpet, at all the threads woven together. 'What do I do now?' They were gone: the woman he'd loved--and the man he hated. He met her stare. No calculation, no coldness, no pity in those turquoise eyes. Just unflinching honesty, as there had been from the very start with her. 'What do I do?'
She had to swallow before she said. 'You light up the darkness.”
― Queen of Shadows
She had to swallow before she said. 'You light up the darkness.”
― Queen of Shadows
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