The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.
what doesn't kill you makes you cry on your birthday and even during your meals and even during travelling in a public transport and even during holidays and even during a sunset and even during gazing a sky full of stars and even when you're alone and even when you're not.
Antigone rlly is one of the most heartbreaking protagonists ever. her big brothers are dead. her uncle is evil. her sister can be her friend or her ally but not both. the curse is everpresent & unavoidable. and on top of all that she’s like 15 which is one of the worst ages to be