41+ Beautiful Quotes From The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller

Here are Some Beautiful The Song of Achilles Quotes:

• “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
• “I am made of memories.”
• “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.”
• “He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
• “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
• “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
• “He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
• “There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”
• “Name one hero who was happy.”
• “We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.”
• “I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”
• “I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
• “When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.”
• “You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
• “Go,” She says. “He waits for you.”
• “I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
• “Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.”
• “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.”
• “I am air and thought and can do nothing.”
• “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.”
• “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.”
• “Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, was the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all.”
• “He was spring, golden and bright. Envious death would drink his blood, and grow young again.”
• “There is no honour in betraying your friends.”
• “. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.”
• “He had light enough to make heroes of them all.”
• “He did not fear ridicule, he had never known it.”
• “The sound was pure and sweet as water, bright as lemons.”
• “The flames surround me, and I feel myself slipping further from life, thinning to only the faintest shiver in the air. I yearn for the darkness and silence of the underworld, where I can rest.”
• “I did not plan to live after he was gone.”
• “There was nothing clever to say, so I said something foolish.”
• “Divine blood flows differently in each god-born child.”
• “Our men liked conquest; they did not trust a man who was conquered himself.”
• “There was nothing in the world I wanted more than to know what he had not said.”
• “I have given enough to them. I will not give them this.”
• “Who was he if not destined for fame?”
• “Pride became us—heroes were never modest.”
• “Name one hero who was happy. You can’t.”
• “His eyelids were the color of the dawn sky; he smelled like the earth after rain.”
• “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
• “The never-ending ache of love and sorrow”
• “I did not hear them. His presence was like a stone in my shoe, impossible to ignore.”