Bambii

“To get what you want, you have to know exactly how much you are willing to give up.”
― C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince

“How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called words. We spend our time upon the earth and then disappear, and only one one-thousandth of what we were lasts. We send all those bottles out into the ocean and so few wash up on shore.”
― john darnton, Almost a Family: A Memoir

“When laced into his clothing, Laurent's dangerous grace lent him an almost androgynous quality. Or perhaps it was more accurate to say that it was rare to associate Laurent with a physical body at all: you were always dealing with a mind.”
― S.U. Pacat, Captive Prince

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles