

“I could recognize 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
― The Song of Achilles

“He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles

“I am the force of creation, I am
the end and the beginning. The world is a painting and I hold the brush. I
am a god.”
― The Burning God
the end and the beginning. The world is a painting and I hold the brush. I
am a god.”
― The Burning God

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains

“One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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