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“They leaned towards him, like flowers to the sun, drinking in his luster. It was as Odysseus had said: he had light enough to make heroes of them all.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“Not everything about the Wind was bad. Sometimes it blew through the little voids and crevices of the Statues and caused them to sing and whistle in surprising ways; I had never known the Statues to have voices before and it made me laugh for sheer delight.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi