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“[Asiaticus responds] Ask your sons, Suillius. They will testify to my masculinity.”
― Tacitus, Publius, Cornelius, The Annals of Imperial Rome

“So much, then, for the fish.”
― Herodotus, The Histories

“What cannot be said will be wept.”
― Sappho

“I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you- the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls