cassiopheias:

the song of achilles + favorite quotes

josiealibrandis:

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.

dickgraysonn:

you have made a fair run of blocking fate’s path. you cannot do it forever. the gods will not let you.

mohtz:

ACHILLES AND PATROCLUS

“But one thing more. A last request—grant it, please.
Never bury my bones apart from yours, Achilles,
let them lie together…
just as we grew up together in your house.”

patroiclus:

books i read in 2016; march– the song of achilles by madeline miller

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”

shrinemaidens:

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