graceful

“Is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.
“Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“There was a vividness to him, even at rest, that made death and spirits seem foolish.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles