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“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“As for the goddess’s answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“This, I say. This and this. The way his hair looked in summer sun. His face when he ran. His eyes, solemn as an owl at lessons. This and this and this. So many moments of happiness, crowding forward.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“Name one hero who was happy.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“Afterwards, when Agamemnon would ask him when he would confront the prince of Troy, he would smile his most guileless, maddening smile. “What has Hector ever done to me?”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“I feel like I could eat the world raw.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“I am made of memories.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“Bring him back to me,' he told them.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles