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“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.”
― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“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