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

“Have you no more memories?"
"I am made of memories.”
― The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

“The yearning for him is like hunger, hollowing me. Somewhere his soul waits but it is nowhere I can reach. Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free. His ashes settle among mine, and I feel nothing.”
― The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

“Had she really thought I would not know him? I could recognise him by touch alone, by smell, I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“Minha mãe era como a areia. Do tipo que esquenta na praia quando você sai da água tremendo de frio. Do tipo que gruda no corpo, deixando uma impressão na pele para fazer você se lembrar de onde esteve e de onde veio. Do tipo que você continua achando nos sapatos e nos bolsos muito tempo depois de ter ido embora da praia.”
― Clare Vanderpool, Navigating Early