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"There is a Quichua riddle: El que me nombra, me rompe. Whatever names me, breaks me. The solution, of course, is 'silence.' But the truth is, anyone who knows your name can break you in two."

“I toss the stone of my story into a vast crevice; measure the emptiness by its small sound.”

“If he could have only reached it, it would have saved him” as a line for this whole book is giving me a headrush

“A man of disorderly passions, Antony seemed to count on chiding, to which he gamely responded. He was a happy subordinate, arguably at his best in that role. Plutarch has him taking more pleasure in the rebukes than he did in any commendations” mark antony sub real in real life

“A district of girls with no voices, who are coveted by marriageable men. When they open the blinds in the morning, their mouths are cupped like Os. My mother says they’re singing, but we know how some songs can be screams.”

"The morning before the school shooting passed like any other, all my neighbors out at dawn performing oblations to the angels on our roofs." WHAT a fucking opening line

“Try to tell her anything serious and she’ll half-listen for five minutes and then start fidgeting. Quiz her about it next time and she’ll have completely forgotten.” does lyra have adhd or is she just 12: longest thread in the history of pullman, closed after 3000 posts

"And then the dry and curl, the slow approach of death on trillions of radial feet, peristalsis-perfect winterbeast, the ground more exposed than we thought possible, the trees alone, the howlgroan of the wind, the smell of the coming of snow."

cmm prose. foaming at the mouth

i got frustrated with how this book kept introducing new characters and POVs of people i do not care about and then i realized that makes it a really good antony and cleopatra adaptation and then i got mad. and then i forgot i was reading it,

“Even [at the end of Shakespeare’s play] our sympathy for Cleopatra falls far short of the pity we feel for Lear or Juliet.” sometimes i forget how counter to the general critical opinion my lear takes are because i wouldn’t piss on lear if he were on fire

suuuuuuch a good brutus characterization. guy (gender neutral) who really earnestly believes that we can still save rome and the republic and the people! they need us to guide them! it'll all work out because heroes win!

the “he was half my soul” in this book absolutely bodied the fuck out of TSOA i’m sorry to say (i’m not sorry)

oh my god i think this book is actually fucking genius

please tell me augustus and agrippa have a weird gay thing. and please tell me it's toxic

on Mark Antony:

"politically astute only on alternate days of the week, in equal measure ingenious and foolhardy, audacious and reckless"

"wherever Mark Antony went, sexual charm inevitably followed. His tunic tucked high on his rolling hips, he had slept his way across Asia at least once"

QUEEN OF BITHYNIA REFERENCE… this is the only book written

anita you are so hot. and you are going to get that man killed

you guys are FUCKED

i'm frothing at the mouth.

"Calla is a woman in the same way that the sky is blue. She understands that it’s the easiest identifier to slap on and she doesn’t mind it, but in actuality, the sky is an incomprehensible void, and Calla, too, feels closer to a nebulous, inexact entity."

okay fascinating for a cleopatra character when generally cleopatra is such a model of hyperfemininity. im listening

"Pampi Magnes" HAS to be pompey right. help me