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“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“...Tal vez por esa experiencia en que la dicha se teñía de repente de dolor, yo ya debía haber entendido, repito, que nuestra felicidad está siempre en un equilibrio peligroso, inestable, a punto de resbalar por un precipicio de desolación.”
― Héctor Abad Faciolince, El olvido que seremos