Minerva

“Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.
“Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice