“Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It's damaged, but it's there. Don't let them take it from you, Elias.”
― An Ember in the Ashes
― An Ember in the Ashes
“I think: this is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: how long do we have?”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“He collects my ashes himself, though this is a women's duty. He puts them in a golden urn, the finest in our camp, and turns to the watching Greeks.
'When I am dead, I charged you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.”
― The Song of Achilles
'When I am dead, I charged you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.”
― The Song of Achilles
“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“When the fear takes over, use the only thing more powerful, more indestructible, to fight it: your spirit. Your heart.”
― An Ember in the Ashes
― An Ember in the Ashes
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