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"Had she perceived this meeting's import she might have asked why she was doomed to be seen and coveted that day by the wrong man, and not by some other man, the right and desired one in all respects—as nearly as humanity can supply the right and desired; yet to him who amongst her acquaintance might have approximated to this kind, she was but a transient impression half-forgotten." 🫪

🫪 begging any hollywood director to please make a movie adaption of this

"No matter who I was, no matter how anyone else saw me, no matter whether I knew who I was, somewhere on this planet there was someone who'd completely accept me." absolutely adoring this story 💔 how i wish adult life was not on the way so i could read this faster 😭

"No one will ever know about your tragedy, (...) and you're going to spend the rest of your life feeling like no one and nothing will help you, that you're in it alone."

"But why talk to myself like this? Lying by my ships is a dead man, unburied, unwept — Patroclus, whom I shall never forget as long as I am among the living and can walk the earth, my own dear comrade, whom I shall still remember even though the dead forget their dead, even in Hades' halls."

"But what satisfaction can I get from that, now that my dearest companion is dead, Patroclus, who was more to me than any other of my men, whom I loved as much as my own life? (...) Then let me die immediately, since I let my companion be killed when I could have saved him." 💔

"I didn't look around, though. You can't look around, every time you think you're not alone. Once you start, you never stop." we're off to an amazing start 🙂‍↕️