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“But there was a line of rallied Greeks behind me screaming my name. His name. I did not stop.”
― Madeline Miller, 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.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“My hands feel empty without the garland. I watch King Peleus embrace his son. I see the boy toss the garland in the air and catch it again. He is laughing, and his face is bright with victory.”
― Madeline Miller, 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.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles