Just Me

“Once an enemy, never a friend, not even after death”

“Would to god my rage, my fury would drive me now to hack your flesh away and eat you raw—such agonies you have caused me!”

“Achilles went for him, fast, sure of his speed as the wild mountain hawk, the quickest thing on wings, launching smoothly, swooping down on a cringing dove”

“That star they call Orion’s dog—brightest of all but a fatal sign emblazoned on the heavens”

“For mortal men there is no escape from the doom we must endure.”

“It’s we [women] who find ourselves openly criticised, while no blame attached to those who are responsible, our husbands.”

“Tears are my companions by night, tears fill my wretched thoughts by day.”

“When a woman gains notoriety, there is bitterness in what is said about her.”

“The heat of her is stronger than any Irish sun.”

“Are you like the girls in the book too? Because I think I am.”

“She’s having a hard time right now because you’re not what she expected. But we’re never what our parents expected. They have to learn that lesson.”

“Haven’t you ever wondered what it would be like to have nothing keeping you attached to the ground?”

“It doesn’t seem like much. But sometimes just being yourself—really, truly yourself—can be the most difficult thing to be.”