“A surety rose in me, lodged in my throat. I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”

—  Madeline Miller, book The Song of Achilles

Variant: I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
Source: The Song of Achilles

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