#cafedits

madeline miller, the song of achilles / mokumokuren, hikaru ga shinda natsu

madeline miller, the song of achilles / samantha shannon, a day of fallen night / alice winn, in memoriam

“I’m a total wreck, but I want to hold you. I…I’ve got nothing good going for me, but I still dare to love you. I can’t help it. There’s no cure. I’m covered in dirt and grime, but I still love the snow in the sky. It’s my fault, not yours… I’m sorry… I’m so inferior, but I love you… Loving you hurts so bad. Xie Qingcheng, it hurts. I know I can’t have you, that I have to let go, but I still love you, each and every day.”

emily brontë, wuthering heights / homer, iliad / mike flanagan, the haunting of bly manor / lord huron, the night we met / kitaguni, jujutsu kaisen 0 (light novel)

“The Gu Mang of back then was so kind, so righteous. Though he was just a slave, with a status low as dirt, he would never resent anything, would never criticize anything….he always empathized and cared for other people’s difficulties, even if he himself led an exhausting life.”

“In truth, even before the emperor had bestowed him on Mo Xi, he’d felt that Xihe-jun was the backbone of Chonghua…..But everyone else in the nation only saw Mo Xi’s strength, and forgot that he was a man of flesh and blood.”

homer, iliad / quintus of smyrna, posthomerica