The Song of Achilles
- Alinefez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
The last thing I think is: Achilles.Motherfucker I hate this book I hate the lack of a happy ending I hate the Greeks and their stupid honor and the gods and their stupid profecies and achilles and agamemnon and their stupid pride and patroclus and his very own brand of stupidity
- Alinefez uma citaçãohá 3 anosUpon Agamemnon’s return home after the war, he was murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra.
WHAT LMAO
(OH yeah he killed their daughter) - Alinefez uma citaçãohá 3 anosThe Fates were well known for such riddles, unclear until the final piece had fallen. Then, bitterly clear.
- Alinefez uma citaçãohá 3 anosHer words were like new leather, still stiff and precise, not yet run together with use.
- Alinefez uma citaçãohá 3 anoswet and with bits of fruit still hanging from it, in my ear.
Ew lmao
- Alinefez uma citaçãohá 3 anos“But you will forgive me?”
I reached for his hand and took it. “I have no need to forgive you. You cannot offend me.” They were rash words, but I said them with all the conviction of my heart. - Alinefez uma citaçãohá 3 anosI wished that Achilles would get up. I felt foolish here, on the ground beneath him. And I was also afraid.
"I am no bottom"
- Alinefez uma citaçãohá 3 anosHe said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?
- raniafez uma citaçãohá 6 dias
I see his face as if through water, as a fish sees the sun. His tears fall, but I cannot wipe them away. This is my element now, the half-life of the unburied spirit. - raniafez uma citaçãohá 6 dias“You are a better man than I.”
The beginning of hope. We have given each other wounds, but they are not mortal. Briseis will not be harmed and Achilles will remember himself and my wrist will heal. There will be a moment after this, and another after that.
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