Sign in with Facebook
Arden
https://www.goodreads.com/pminseo
![赤髪の白雪姫 1 [Akagami no Shirayuki-hime 1] by Sorata Akizuki](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1729331752l/7819029._SY75_.jpg "赤髪の白雪姫 1 [Akagami no Shirayuki-hime 1] by Sorata Akizuki")
![赤髪の白雪姫 4 [Akagami no Shirayuki-hime 4] by Sorata Akizuki](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1452911859l/11062241._SY75_.jpg "赤髪の白雪姫 4 [Akagami no Shirayuki-hime 4] by Sorata Akizuki")
“When he speaks at last, his voice is weary, and defeated. He doesn’t know how to be angry with me, either. We are like damp wood that won’t light.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“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 did not have to fear that I spoke too much. I did not have to worry that I was too slender, or too slow. This and this and this! I taught him how to skip stones, and he taught me how to carve wood. I could feel every nerve in my body, every brush of air against my skin.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“I conjure the boy I knew. Achilles, grinning as the figs blur in his hands. His green eyes laughing into mine. Catch, he says. Achilles, outlined against the sky, hanging from a branch over the river. The thick warmth of his sleepy breath against my ear. If you have to go, I will go with you. My fears forgotten in the golden harbor of his arms.
The memories come, and come. She listens, staring into the grain of the stone. We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.”
― The Song of Achilles
The memories come, and come. She listens, staring into the grain of the stone. We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.”
― The Song of Achilles
“We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from."
"But what if he is your friend? Or your brother? Should you treat him the same as a stranger?"
"You ask a question that philosophers argue over. He is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?"
We had been silent. We were fourteen, and these things were too hard for us. Now that we are twenty-seven, they still feel too hard.
He is half my soul, as the poets say. He will be dead soon, and his honor is all that will remain. It is his child his dearest self. Should I reproach him for it? I have saved Briseis. I cannot save them all.
I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.”
― The Song of Achilles
"But what if he is your friend? Or your brother? Should you treat him the same as a stranger?"
"You ask a question that philosophers argue over. He is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?"
We had been silent. We were fourteen, and these things were too hard for us. Now that we are twenty-seven, they still feel too hard.
He is half my soul, as the poets say. He will be dead soon, and his honor is all that will remain. It is his child his dearest self. Should I reproach him for it? I have saved Briseis. I cannot save them all.
I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.”
― The Song of Achilles
Arden’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Arden’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
956 books
|
89 friends
175 books
|
13 friends
23 books
|
13 friends
61 books
|
27 friends
62 books
|
6 friends
79 books
|
7 friends
1 book
|
1 friend
63 books
|
2 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Poetry, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult
Polls voted on by Arden
Lists liked by Arden
