rara’s Reviews > The Song of Achilles > Status Update

i stopped writing down all the good quotes cus everything in this book is perfection

“Greetings, Prince Achilles,” Odysseus said. “We’ve been looking for you.”
-you clever shit

tf Patroclus??? “Almost, I fled. But I could not bear to see her face broken open with more sorrow, more disappointment—another boy who could not give her what she wanted.”

“Had she really thought I would not know him? I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; 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.”- Patroclus doesn't have one bad track-also Achilles pretending to be a woman is hilarious he's enjoying himself so much

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other."

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”-😶i guess we'll find out

"It's like a leap from a waterfall"