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“Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.” - Odysseus
“I doubt it.” - Pyrrhus

“If the camp falls, I will claim you as my husband.” She hesitates again. “It may help some. You must not speak of what you were to him, though. It will be a death sentence.” Her hand has tightened on my arm. “Promise me.”

“Briseis,” I say, “if he is dead, I will not be far behind.”

“You will win the greatest game from his death.”
“Perhaps I would, but I see no reason to kill him.” Achilles answered coolly. “He’s done nothing to me.” [178]

“I think: This is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: How long do we have?” [183]

odysseus supporting the gays😭😭😭😭love to see it

“Had she truly thought I would not know him? I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

wait is this doomed