Angie Shere

“No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from."

"But what if he is your friend? Or your brother? Should you treat him the same as a stranger?"

"You ask a question that philosophers argue over. He is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?"

We had been silent. We were fourteen, and these things were too hard for us. Now that we are twenty-seven, they still feel too hard.

He is half my soul, as the poets say. He will be dead soon, and his honor is all that will remain. It is his child his dearest self. Should I reproach him for it? I have saved Briseis. I cannot save them all.

I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?”
― Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

“We have loved each other well, dear Willie, but now, for reasons we cannot understand, that bond has been broken. But our bond can never be broken. As long as I live, you will always be with me, child.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

“She wanted to think she had become another person altogether that night before, but she knew the horrible truth, that Nightbitch had always been there, not even that far below the surface.”
― Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch