“There were no words to speak to him of how I felt. Our world was one of blood, and the honor it won; only cowards did not fight.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“I loved this about him. No matter how many times I asked, he answered me as if it were the first time.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“I wanted to wake him and see those eyes open. A thousand thousand times I had seen it, but I never tired of it.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“Give me iron words forged in fire that I may speak the language of earth.”
― Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
― Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
“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”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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