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"“To have loved and been loved so abundantly, so intimately and to have to leave it behind, with no plan for return. Would it be another decade before I felt their embrace? Would it be two? This place had changed me. Where there was love, there was now an accompanying ache—a deep yearning and longing to be with them.”" — Feb 13, 2026 09:31AM
"“To have loved and been loved so abundantly, so intimately and to have to leave it behind, with no plan for return. Would it be another decade before I felt their embrace? Would it be two? This place had changed me. Where there was love, there was now an accompanying ache—a deep yearning and longing to be with them.”" — Feb 13, 2026 09:31AM
“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“I've always been of the mind that subtlety is a waste of time. Fortune favors the flirtatious.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
“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.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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