Just Me

Just me, myself and I.

[ultramilous]

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

‘Antigone’ by Sophocles, translation by Robert Fagles

[ultramilous]

“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!”

‘The Iliad’ by Homer, translation by Robert Fagles

[ultramilous]

“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”

‘The Iliad’ by Homer, translation by Robert Fagles

[colei-cheprovocadesiderio]

[qvotable]

“Things hardly ever work on the first try. We’ll make another, a better one.”

— Anthony Doerr // All the Light We Cannot See

[ultramilous]

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

‘The Iliad’ by Homer, translation by Robert Fagles

[me-myself-and-eyes]

“It’s harder for someone to pin you down as a girl when they need a moment to pin you down as human.”

-Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

[ultramilous]

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

‘Antigone’ by Sophocles

[ultramilous]

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

‘Electra’ by Euripides

[ultramilous]

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

‘Electra’ by Euripides

[ultramilous]

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

‘Electra’ by Euripides

[missinyouiskillingme]

I used to build dreams about you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

[ultramilous]

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

‘The Henna Wars’ by Adiba Jaigirdar

[ultramilous]

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

‘Last Night At The Telegraph Club’ by Malinda Lo

[ultramilous]

“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.”

‘Last Night At The Telegraph Club’ by Malinda Lo

[ultramilous]

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

‘Last Night At The Telegraph Club’ by Malinda Lo

[ultramilous]

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

‘The Henna Wars’ by Adiba Jaigirdar