Dana Duran

“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He will use the word "love," and the world will not stop spinning but go right on in its courses, like the river, like the bees, like everything. A person shouldn't look too far down her nose at absurdities. Look at me. I dived into one absurd thing after another, and here I am in the pink house. I wake up to wonder everyday.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“I had seen the way he looked at Deidameia; or rather the way he did not. It was the same way he had looked at the boys in Phthia, blank and unseeing. He had never, not once, looked at me that way.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Because the world took and took and took from you, too, after all. She knows this. And yet, for some reason that she does not think she'll ever understand...even as you died, you were reaching for the Moon.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Broken Earth Trilogy