

“Poets are not to blame for how things are.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“I understood too well what it was like to feel like you were defined by one superficial thing- to feel like you would never excape the box people had put you in”
― A Very Large Expanse of Sea
― A Very Large Expanse of Sea
“If the decision you’ve made has brought you closer to humanity, then you’ve done the right thing.”
― A Very Large Expanse of Sea
― A Very Large Expanse of Sea

“We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles

“I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles

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