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“The defeated go down in history and disappear, and their stories die with them.”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
“How do you separate a tiger's beauty from its ferocity? Or a cheetah's elegance from the speed of its attack? Achilles was like that -- the beauty and the terror were two sides of a single coin.”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
“I thought: And I do what countless women before me have been forced to do. I spread my legs for the man who killed my husband and my brother.”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
“Men carve meaning into women’s faces; messages addressed to other men.”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
“Yes, the death of young men in battle is a tragedy - I’d lost four brothers, I didn’t need anybody to tell me that. A tragedy worthy of any number of laments - but theirs is not the worst fate. I looked at Andromache, who’d have to live the rest of her amputated life as a slave, and I thought: We need a new song. ”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
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