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“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, The Song of Achilles

“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. "He waits for you."

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, The Song of Achilles

“Lo capì dalle prime righe, che Leonardo Villani non era solo uno dei più bei corpi che avesse mai avuto modo di ammirare. Era anche una delle menti più brillanti che avesse mai avuto modo di incontrare.”
― Mirya, Di carne e di carta

“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles