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“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.”
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“Exile might satisfy the anger of the living but it did nothing to appease the dead.”
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“You are a better man than I.”
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“I’m sorry,” I said again. I had nothing better to say. He did not love her; he never would.”
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“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
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“Let him.” He kneels, smooths back the hair on my forehead. I am wrapped in blankets, to muffle the smell.”
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“I would know him in death and at the end of the world.”
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“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
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“If every soldier killed only those who’d personally offended him Peleides, we’d have no wars at all.”
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“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
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“No one would remember his glory, or his honesty, or his beauty; all his gold would be turned to ashes and ruin.”
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“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
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“This was the cruelty of adults. Do you understand?”
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“I am made of memories.”
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“He smiled at me, and I saw the lines where other smiles had been.”
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“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
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“Exile might satisfy the anger of the living, but it did not appease the dead.”
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“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
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“My fears forgotten in the golden harbour of his arms.”
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“There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”
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Short The Song of Achilles Quotes
“The poets were always correct,” I say softly. ”You are half my soul.”
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“He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
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“I clap my hands over my ears. The voices of the dead were said to have the power to make the living mad. I must not hear him speak.”
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“Name one hero who was happy.”
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“Achilles makes a sound like choking. “There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”
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“We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.”
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“It was easy, in those moments, to forget that the war had not yet really begun.”
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“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. “No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
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“As for the goddess’ answer. I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone”
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“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”
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“If you have to go, you know I will go with you.” We slept.”
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“I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
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“Patroclus. I have given enough to them. I will not give them this.”
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“Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.”
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“There was a vividness to him, even at rest, that made death and spirits seem foolish.”
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“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”
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“The yearning for him is like hunger, hollowing me.”
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“Bring him back to me,’ he told them.”
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“and where there was greed there was hope.”
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“We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.”
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“We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?”
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“There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, tonight and tomorrow and all the days after that. He let go of my hand.”
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“This, and this and this. We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but each other.”
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“When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.”
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“The never ending ache of love and sorrow”
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“Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.”
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“I did not hear them. His presence was like a stone in my shoe, impossible to ignore.”
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“It is right to seek peace for the dead. You and I both know there is no peace for those who live after.”
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“I have no need to forgive you. You cannot offend me.”
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“You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
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“He doesn’t know how to be angry with me, either. We are like damp wood that won’t light.”
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“Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.”
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“But I would have the memory be worthy of the man.”
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“Go,” She says. “He waits for you.”
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“In our stories these divinities had to work by wheedling and flattery, by favors won from stronger gods. They could not do much themselves. Except live, forever.”
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“Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.”
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“Tears came, and fell. Above us, the constellations spun, and the moon paced her weary course.”
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“I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
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“When he died, all things swift and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
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“It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright were they dull.”
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“She thought that she had power to drive a wedge between us, but she had nothing.”
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“This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old.”
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“We were silent a moment. ‘So, which of the suitors would you have picked?’ I shoved him, and he laughed”
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“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.”
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“The beginning of hope. We have given each other wounds, but they are not mortal.”
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“What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another. We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory… We are men only, a brief flare of the torch.”
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“A marriage for love, rare as cedars from the East.”
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“The sorrow was so large it threatened to tear through my skin. When he died, all things swift and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
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“They gave her to a mortal, trying to shackle the child’s power. Dilute him with humanity, diminish him.”
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“He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.”
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“I would wake, choking on my horror, and stare at the darkness until dawn.”
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“He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else’s friend and brother. So which life is more important?”
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“Everyone knew how they dripped with perfume, were corrupt from soft living.”
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“Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all.”
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“He was like a flame himself. He glittered, drew eyes. There was a glamour to him, even on waking, with his hair tousled and his face still muddled with sleep.”
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“I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop of heartsblood lost.”
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“His presence was like a stone in my shoe, impossible to ignore.”
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“I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.”
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“I haunt their dreams. Do not leave, I beg them. Not until you have given me peace. But if anyone hears, they do not answer.”
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“A surety rose in me, lodged in my throat. I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”
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Medium Quotes from The Song of Achilles
“It was easy to see how such lovely things might become songs.”
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“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?”
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“I would know it in dark or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness”
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“As if he heard me, he smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
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“He was spring. golden and bright. Envious Death would drink his blood, and grow young again.”
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“There is no honour in betraying your friends.”
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“The voices of the dead were said to have the power to make the living mad.”
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“Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.”
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“I would know him in death and in the end of the world.”
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“. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.”
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“There are too many of them,” he said. “It’s simpler if they just remember me.”
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“They leaned towards him, like flowers to the sun, drinking in his luster. It was as Odysseus had said: he had light enough to make heroes of them all.”
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“She wears a cape, and it is this that undoes her—that allows her to be pulled, limbs light and poised as a cat, from her horse.”
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“The sound was pure and sweet as water, bright as lemons.”
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“I will tell them nothing.” The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. “It is not for them to say what I will do.”
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“He did not fear ridicule, he had never known it.”
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“I thought this is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old”
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“I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.”
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“I am made of memories”
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“We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.”
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“I kneel before him, his leg in my hands. “Eurypylus,” I say. “Can you speak?” “Fucking Paris,” he says.”
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“I did not plan to live after he was gone.”
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“But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another.”
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“There was nothing clever to say, so I said something foolish.”
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“It seemed absurd even to think of it, foolish and improbable as a dream is by dinner.”
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“And perhaps you should get some new stories, so I don’t fucking kill myself of boredom.”
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“When at last they pulled off the veil, they say my mother smiled. That is how they knew she was quite stupid. Brides did not smile.”
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“and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious”
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“There is no one like you” I said, at last. He regarded me a moment, in silence. “So?”
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“Divine blood flows differently in each god-born child.”
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“You do not command me. The silence went on and on, painful and breathless, like a singer overreaching to finish a phrase. Then,”
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“Our men liked conquest; they did not trust a man who was conquered himself.”
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“I thought of how many nights I had lain awake in this room, loving him in silence”
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“I have given enough to them. I will not give them this.”
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“Men’s faces are heavy with anger, but there are no more fights—it is too hot. They lie in the dark and hate each other.”
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“There was nothing in the world I wanted more than to know what he had not said.”
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“Will I feel his ashes as they fall against mine?”
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“He is a mortal,” she says. “And mortals die.” “I am a mortal!” he screams. “What good is godhead, if it cannot do this? What good are you?”
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“It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.”
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“Who was he if not destined for fame?”
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“I had been dreaming myself a fish, silvered by sun as it leapt from the sea. The waves dissolved, became amphorae and grain sacks again.”
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“Name one hero who was happy. You can’t.”
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“But in truth, it had been less a presence than an absence, a laying aside of dread:”
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“Patroclus,’ he said. He was always better with words than I.”
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“Patroclus. I have given enough to them. I will not give them this.” After that, there was nothing more to say.”
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“What has Hector ever done to me?”
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“Our goddess of the moon is gifted with magic, with power over the dead. She could banish the dreams, if she wished. She did not.”
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“Do you think Aristos Achaion fights in hopeless wars?”
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“That is my mother’s lyre,’ I almost said. The words were in my mouth, and behind them others crowded close. ‘That is my lyre.”
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“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
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“Whichever you choose, you are wrong.”
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“Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.”
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“When he smiled, the skin at the corners of his eyes crinkled like a leaf held to flame.”
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“For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty?”
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“If you have to go, you know I will go with you.”
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“We reached for each other and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake in this room loving him in silence.”
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“I knew how pleasure looked on him.”
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“But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”
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“I wanted to wake him and see those eyes open. A thousand times I had seen it, but I never tired of it.”
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“The word I use is hubris. Our word for arrogance that scrapes the stars, for violence and towering rage as ugly as the gods.”
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“My chest trilled with something I could not quite name. Escape, and danger, and hope all at once.”
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“Do not let what you gained this day be so easily lost.”
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“Above us, the constellations spun, and the moon paved her weary course.”
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“Maybe her gods are kinder than ours, and she will find rest”
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“Our dead came for their vengeance regardless of witnesses”
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“The never-ending ache of love and sorrow.”
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“There is only her small hand on my stomach, and the softness of her cheek as I stroke it. It is strange how well she fits there.”
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“Even here, behind the darkness of my eyelids, I cannot name the thing I hope for.”
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“She’ll hate me now,” I said. “She already hates you,” he answered, with a flash of smile.”
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“Indeed, he seemed utterly unaware of his effect on the boys around him.”
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“Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”
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“No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
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“Name one hero who was happy – You can’t.” “I can’t.” “I know. They never let you become famous and happy – I’ll tell you a secret.” “Tell me.” “I’m going to be the first.”
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