

“Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know it in dark or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles

“We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles

“He collects my ashes himself, though this is a women's duty. He puts them in a golden urn, the finest in our camp, and turns to the watching Greeks.
'When I am dead, I charged you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.”
― The Song of Achilles
'When I am dead, I charged you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.”
― The Song of Achilles

“I am air and thought and can do nothing.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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