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"–Who are we? asked Scrotes
–People of my kind.
–You have a kind? said Scrotes
–Yes, and we are easy to find. Under bridges at the back-end of piers, in parks when parks are closed, in the shadows of others, in the night."

"You carry your weather with you, his father was fond of saying. Yet the day was glorious."

"...deidades ociosas y antropomórficas sin nada mejor que hacer que mantener una vigilancia telepática sobre la conciencia de milliones de frágiles primates que habían aprendido a su suerte en un remoto rincón del universo y cuya vanidad, o desesperación, los llevaba a creer a pies juntillas que cielo e infierno se desvivían por sus triviales y mezquinos pecadillos."

"Sam spoon the wheel and took a hairpin turn faster than he needed to, with a noisy scatter of gravel. He parked at a service road that said NO PARKING." okay ronan lynch, calm down.

"Me sentí rodeado de millones de páginas abandonadas, de universos y almas sin dueño, que se hundían en un océano de oscuridad mientras el mundo que palpitaba fuera de aquellos muros perdía la memoria sin darse cuenta día tras día, sintiéndose más sabio cuanto más olvidaba."

you know you're approaching the end of a mary renault book when the only thing you feel is PAIN

"He was lifted into a kind of exalted dream, part loyalty, part hero-worship, all romance. Half-remembered images moved in it, the tents of Troy, the columns of Athens, David waiting in an olive grove for the sound of Jonathan's bow."

"The play was over. The hero lives on in honor; the audience knows it; but the theater is empty, and the sweepers have moved in. It is the time for memory."

Niko ❤❤❤

"It made sense that I should love him just for being; there was nothing he need do for me but be real."

sokrates, philosopher AND matchmaker

"Indeed, while he is singing, he makes his own heaven and earth; the good is what he chooses, and where he sets their altars, there the gods alight."

Aristophanes doesn't deserve to be praised (like, ever!!) but GOD THE WRITING IN THIS BOOK

i feel like this book is going to ruin my life ???

i might have shed a tear at the mention of the "Inner Kerameikos" and the "Dipylon Gate"

Badass Dan da Silva is in the house!! GOD I LOVE THIS MAN

"Front door's still locked." 😭😭

Time to read about my favorite bisexual!!!!

rereading the english world series in preparation for the (now annual) reread of the will darling adventures

"Richard meritava molto di più. E lui sapeva di poterglielo offrire." E ANDIAMO SIEGFRIED!!!

this whole "will they won't they" thing between slate and caliban is getting soo boring oh my god

Caliban ❤

Imagine this: you're in athens, the city's prospering giving birth to democracy, you're a philosopher and you're philosophizing in the agora when some random dude (who's unfortunately the book's protagonist) comes up to you and throws a turnip at your head shouting "OI DICKHEAD"
I'm pretty sure Jesus Christ didn't suffer half as much as I did while reading this book.

you left the underworld without looking back good for youuu phaidros!!!! you're soo cool!!!

"I never understood why Persephone ate the pomegranate." shut up shut up shut uppppp first odysseus and now this, get away from my favorite myths!!!!