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“Hurry, come hold me, though I am dead. Shed tears on my body as on my grave.”
“But when a god sends harm, no man can sidestep it, no matter how strong he may be.”
“I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.”
“Of most dreadful suffering, I am the cause.”
“Yes I know sorrow. Know it far too well. My life is a tunnel choked by the sweepings of dread.”
“What an ugly, loveless life for a girl.”
“Yes it will be a grace if I die. To exist is pain. Life is no desire of mine anymore.”
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?”
“Electra, grieving for death, for her father, as a nightingale grieving always.”
“And instead my beloved, luck sent you back to me colder than ashes, later than shadow.”
“But death was a wind too strong for that.”
“Not long now: the blazing dream of my head is crawling out.”
“For Time calls only once, and that determines all.”
“Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.”
“Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.”
“You gave birth to your own death.”
“Now is no time to delay. This is the edge of action.”
“Last night was a night of bad dreams and ambiguous visions.”
“Harsh ways are taught by harshness.”
“You are nothing at all. Just a crack where the light slipped through.”