Marsh

“The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

“I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe