The Song of Achilles
- Alinehar citeretfor 2 år siden
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
- Alinehar citeretfor 2 år sidenUpon Agamemnon’s return home after the war, he was murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra.
WHAT LMAO
(OH yeah he killed their daughter) - Alinehar citeretfor 2 år sidenThe Fates were well known for such riddles, unclear until the final piece had fallen. Then, bitterly clear.
- Alinehar citeretfor 2 år sidenHer words were like new leather, still stiff and precise, not yet run together with use.
- Alinehar citeretfor 2 år sidenwet and with bits of fruit still hanging from it, in my ear.
Ew lmao
- Alinehar citeretfor 2 år siden“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. - Alinehar citeretfor 2 år sidenI wished that Achilles would get up. I felt foolish here, on the ground beneath him. And I was also afraid.
"I am no bottom"
- Alinehar citeretfor 2 år sidenHe 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?
- Julia Cabralhar citeretsidste år
The gift that we were presenting to Tyndareus stood ready, a beaten-gold mixing bowl embossed with the story of the princess Danae. Zeus had wooed her in a shower of golden light, and she had borne him Perseus, Gorgon-slayer, second only to Heracles among our heroes. - readers stationhar citeretsidste år
but there was an ache in me, like a rotten tooth. I could not let it be.
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