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#1

“What cannot be said will be wept.”
― Sappho

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#2

“their heart grew cold
they let their wings down”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

tags: beauty, defeat, giving-in, giving-up, imagery, poetry

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#3

“In the crooks of your body, I find my religon.”
― Sappho

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#4

“A smart girl leaves before she is left”
― Marylin Monroe

tags: girl-power, leave-behind, leave-the-past, marylin, monroe, sex, smart, walking-away

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#5

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― Homer, The Iliad

tags: heart, homer, the-iliad

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#6

“And empty words are evil.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

tags: emotions, empty, evil, feelings, homer, humor, inspiration, love, romance, sadness, words

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#7

“I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S.
"Go," she says. "He waits for you."

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

tags: achilles, afterlife, death, greek-mythology, grief, love, mythology, patroclus

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#8

“Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: achilles, dead, hero, patrochilles, patroclus

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#9

“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: achilles, love, never, patrochilles, patroclus

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#10

“Angry people are not always wise.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom

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#11

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
― Jane Austen

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#12

“Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: jane-austen, money, sense-and-sensibility

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#13

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. ”
― Jane Austen

tags: anne-elliot, jane-austen, persuasion

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#14

“Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.”
― Lady Gaga

tags: humor, lady-gaga, lady-gaga-famous, lady-gaga-quotes

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#15

“Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.”
― Lady Gaga

tags: brick, dead, house, humor, lady-gaga, love

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#16

“Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger”
― Lady Gaga

tags: burger, cow, lady-gaga

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#17

“All I know is
that somewhere.
Some time.
Somehow.
Something has to change.”
― Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

tags: jodie-comer, law, powerful, prima-facie, rape-survivor, tessa-ensler

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#18

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: love, romeo-and-juliet, values, waste

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#19

“Peace? I hate the word as I hate hell and all Montagues.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: romeo-and-juliet

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#20

“Well, when you're being held at gunpoint by a geriatric madman in a metal skirt, you've kind of hit rock bottom anyway. It can't really get much worse.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase

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#21

“It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase

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#22

“Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

tags: death, greek, humor, mythology, percy-jackson, sorry

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#23

“Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
"He's the sun god," I said.
"That's not what I meant.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

tags: apollo, gods, hot, olympians, percy-jackson, sun, thalia

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#24

“Dreams like a podcast,
Downloading truth in my ears.
They tell me cool stuff."
"Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.
He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred."
"A god named Fred?”
― Rick Riordan

tags: apollo, fred, haiku, humor, percy-jackson, poem

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