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“Ten years apart and I still know what will spark his anger, how tender his ego is and how easy it is to bruise.”

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cheers clyemmy darling

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“Fury consumes me: rage at my mother, rage at this Trojan woman and everyone who stands between me and my father.”

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this is so FAWWKING gross

“He is angry because it is in his bones to be angry. He sees himself slighted again; his authority disrespected. ”

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but of course

“The king returns. I smooth down my robes, arrange my face into a smile. Time to welcome him home.”


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the greatest of all the greeks.

a deserving death.

‘She’s going home,’ my mother spat. ‘After all of this, she’s going home.’

Menelaus drew himself up. ‘Helen will face justice in Sparta,’ he repeated.

Hecabe laughed, a gritty cackle that made me flinch. ‘No, she won’t.’

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lady, what do you expect honestly? next time dont listen to your son.

“I, Cassandra of Troy, I could save the city. I could save my family – and I could save myself.”


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foreshadowing

so the poet speaks of the glorious Achilles.

war has always been horrible.

“to change places with a slave who had nothing except the thing I wanted most of all in the world. My father’s arms around her.”

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talk about daddy issues

‘Tell me more about the war,’ he said.
‘Tell me about the battles Father has won.’

I summoned up all my powers of imagination.

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this is peak blind leading the blind

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“He quarrels with your father. King Agamemnon has taken his prize, a slave-girl won by Achilles.”

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so how is she pissed off at her mom but not her dad’s extramarital affair? IDIOT.