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“Donut stop typing in call caps” idk why that got me lol

Princess donut’s character kills me

Might as well finish the re-read

So cute so far

“….the warrior in these moments finds himself lifted as if by the hand of a god. He cannot tell where his being leaves off and that of the comrade beside him begins. In that moment the phalanx forms a unity so dense and all-divining that it performs not merely at the level of a machine or engine of war but, surpassing that, to the state of a single organism, a beast of one blood and heart.”

“Let those we spared this day stand beside us in line of battle on that day when we teach the Persian once and for all what valor free men can bring to bear against slaves, no matter how vast their numbers or how fiercely they are driven on by their child-king's whip."

"You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel."

“Without a city who were we, what were we? A dislocation of the faculties seemed to unman all. No one could think. A numb shock possessed our hearts. Life had become like a play, a tragedy one had seen enacted on the stage—the fall of Ilium, the sack of Thebes. Only now it was real, performed by actors of flesh and blood, and those actors were ourselves.”

This is my fave writing style, let’s hope for plot

“….yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, when they fired their volleys, the mass of arrows blocked out the sun. Dienekes, however, quite undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, ‘Good. Then we'll have our battle in the shade.’”

Oh I’m already so pumped 😂

“And yet I cannot continue in this condition. I have to remind myself to breathe—almost to remind my heart to beat. I have a single wish, and my whole being and faculties are yearning to attain it.They have yearned towards it so long, and so unwaveringly, that I'm convinced it will be reached–and soon–because it has devoured my existence; I am swallowed in the anticipation of its fulfillment.”

“For what is not connected with her to me? and what does not recall her? In every cloud in every tree—filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day l am surrounded with her image. The most ordinary faces of men and women—my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.”

“I looked round impatiently-I felt her by me-I could almost see her, and yet I could not. I ought to have sweat blood then, from the anguish of my yearning-from the fervour of my supplications to have but one glimpse. I had not one.
She showed herself, as she often was in life, a devil to me! And, since then, sometimes more and sometimes less, I've been the sport of that intolerable torture”

"I shan't speak to you, Mr. Heathcliff," answered Catherine. "Papa says you are a wicked man, and you hate both him and me; and Ellen says the same.
"That is nothing to the purpose,” said Heathcliff.

Pfff

An empire cannot be destroyed from without till it’s destroyed from within.

Then you must live for more

“You said that I have killed you—haunt me then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life. I cannot live without my soul!"

“Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You have killed yourself. You loved me—then what right had you to leave me? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”

“You know you lie to say I have killed you, and, Catherine, you know that I could as soon forget you as my existence! Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?"

“You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement, only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style, and refrain from insult as much as you are able. Having levelled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.”