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“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.”

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“… nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.”

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“Afterwards, when Agamemnon would ask him when he would confront the prince of Troy, he would smile his most guileless, maddening smile. “What has Hector ever done to me?”

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“When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.”

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“Go," She says. "He waits for you.”

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“Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.”

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“I almost did not come, because I did not want to leave it."
He smiled. "Now I know how to make you follow me everywhere."
The sun sank below Pelion's ridges, and we were happy.”

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“A surety rose in me, lodged in my throat. I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”

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Varianta: I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
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“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.”

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“Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.”

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“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.”

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“Her mouth was a gash of red, like the torn-open stomach of a sacrifice, bloody and oracular. Behind it her teeth shone sharp and white as bone.”

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“Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know is in dark or disguise, told myself. I would know it even in madness.”

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“This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old.”

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“There is this too.” His hand was ceaseless now. “I know I have told you of this.”

I closed my eyes. “Tell me again,” I said.”

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“and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious”

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“Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all.”

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“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.”

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“Divine blood flows differently in each god-born child.”

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“Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.”

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“Achilles makes a sound like choking. “There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.” His spearpoint flies in a dark whirlwind, bright as the evening-star, to catch the hollow at Hector’s throat.”

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“The sound was pure and sweet as water, bright as lemons.”

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“The rosy gleam of his lip, the fevered gleam of his eyes. There was not a line anywhere on his face, nothing creased or graying; all crisp. He was spring, golden and bright. Envious death would drink his blood, and grow young again.”

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“There is no honour in betraying your friends.”

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“That is — your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”

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