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“This and this and this.”
“Name one hero who was happy.”
“Who was he if not destined for fame?”
“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
“The never-ending ache of love and sorrow.”
“There is no honour in betraying your friends.”
“Name one hero who was happy."I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the...”
“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.”
“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
“I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S."Go," she says...”
“I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from me, giddy with freedom. This, and this, and this, I said to him. I...”
“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.""But what if he is your friend?" Achilles had asked him, feet ...”
“He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
“But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”
“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
“She wants you to be a god," I told him."I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.”
“Patroclus,' he said. He was always better with words than I.”
“Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad...”
“For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty?”
“Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.”
“He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight.”
“He knew, but it was not enough. The sorrow was so large it threatened to tear through my skin. When he died, all things swift and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
“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?Perhaps, Achilles admitted.I li...”
“Exile might satisfy the anger of the living, but it did not appease the dead.”
