“During this time—six, seven years in which I spent more and more hours in Machaon’s tent and fewer with Achilles in the field—I got to know the other men well.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“Now that we are twenty-seven, they still feel too hard.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“But there was a line of rallied Greeks behind me screaming my name. His name. I did not stop.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“Achilles—for it was Achilles—dropped Deidameia’s hand and flung himself joyously at me, knocking me backwards with the force of his embrace.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“Later Achilles would play the lyre, as Chiron and I listened. My mother’s lyre. He had brought it with him. “I wish I had known,” I said the first day, when he had showed it to me. “I almost did not come, because I did not want to leave it.” He smiled. “Now I know how to make you follow me everywhere.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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