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“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“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

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe