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“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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