Dalma

“I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S.
"Go," she says. "He waits for you."

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment as well as the prison.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles