The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood.

Longing performs all things