#bookquotesilike

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“There was a vividness to him, even at rest, that made death and spirits seem foolish”

Song Of Achilles 43

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And his face was like the sun.

The Song Of Achilles 47

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“You can teach a viper how to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite”

- Circe 97

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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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“A few hairs slipped forward to hang over his eyes as he played. They were fine as lyre strings themselves, and shone.”

Song Of Achilles 34

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minor spoiler warning for TSOA content??

Whenever I first read TSOA and Achilles said “no, this is what I was born for” (pg 220) when Patroclus asked him if he was nervous for his first raid in Troy, I originally pictured it as pride in achilles voice. But now on my second read through, I see it as resignation. Achilles wanted his fame, of course, but I feel like he was subconsciously coming to realize it was true that no hero is famous and happy but he would never admit that. I think at this point he was realizing that he didn’t want the fame more than he wanted a life with Patroclus, but he never actually says this. I feel like it’s this unspoken grief for what his life could have been had he not been whisked away by the idea of fame. This is not at all a nuanced take but I have no one to talk about this book with so I needed to get it out somewhere

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“Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me.”

- Circe 86

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His beauty shone like a flame, vital and bright, drawing my eye against my will

Song of Achilles, page 26