♡ shafron ♡

“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 kicked up on the wall of the rose-quartz cave. “Or your brother? Should you treat him the same as a stranger?”

“You ask a question that philosophers argue over,” Chiron had said. “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 of 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.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“You’re so good at stuff, Moony.” He slurred, leaning heavily on Remus’s shoulder.
“Yeah,” Remus grunted, “Picking locks and holding my drink.”
“And magic.” Sirius murmured, sleepily.
“Yeah, we’re wizards, idiot.”
“I’m good at magic,” Sirius sighed, “But you, like… are , magic, y’know?”
― MsKingBean89, All The Young Dudes - Volume One: Years 1 - 4

“It appeared that betrayal was not enough to kill desire, though it made hiding it easier.”
― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes

“Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
― Anne Carson, Euripides