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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

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My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse: I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood. Only that seems large enough to hold all of my rage and grief. I want the world overturned like a bowl of eggs, smashed at my feet.

Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles

I was not careful. I was reckless, headlong. He was another knife, I could feel it. A different sort, but a knife still. I did not care. I thought: give me the blade. Some things are worth spilling blood for.

Madeline Miller

Circe

I tried to picture myself running up and down the beaches, tearing at my hair, cradling some scrap of old tunic he had left behind. Crying out for the loss of half my soul.

Madeline Miller

Circe

I was relieved to see his face was not so dull, but the grief was still there, the heavy knowledge: my father is dead. He would wake up with that thought for a long time, I knew.

Madeline Miller

Circe

There was grief, and so there would always be.

Madeline Miller

Circe

He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.

Madeline Miller

Circe

There was a vividness to him, even at rest, that made death and spirits seem foolish.

Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles

When he died, all things swift and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.

Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles

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