“It would be the saddest thing to me, princess. To walk separately from you, when the ground will let us go as we always did.”
― The Buried Giant
― The Buried Giant
“Who knows what will come when quick-tongued men make ancient grievances rhyme with fresh desire for land and conquest?”
― The Buried Giant
― The Buried Giant
“But God will know the slow tread of an old couple’s love for each other, and understand how black shadows make part of its whole.”
― The Buried Giant
― The Buried Giant
“The giant, once well buried, now stirs. When soon he rises, as surely he will, the friendly bonds between us will prove as knots young girls make with the stems of small flowers.”
― The Buried Giant
― The Buried Giant
“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.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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