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“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Once there was a boy from the sea who fell in love with a girl from the desert.
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But he wondered if a boy from the sea and a girl from the desert could ever survive together. He feared that she might burn him alive or that he might drown her. Until finally he stopped fighting it and set himself on fire for her.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall

“Ahmed would tell me that an eye for an eye would make the whole world blind. Shazad would tell me that was why you had to stab people through both eyes the first time around.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles