Prince Hazel

“Drowning people
Sometimes die
Fighting their rescuers.”
― Octavia Butler

“Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

“There is no end
To what a living world
Will demand of you.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles