The Song of Achilles
- Alinehas quoted3 years ago
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
- Alinehas quoted3 years agoUpon Agamemnon’s return home after the war, he was murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra.
WHAT LMAO
(OH yeah he killed their daughter) - Alinehas quoted3 years agoThe Fates were well known for such riddles, unclear until the final piece had fallen. Then, bitterly clear.
- Alinehas quoted3 years agoHer words were like new leather, still stiff and precise, not yet run together with use.
- Alinehas quoted3 years agowet and with bits of fruit still hanging from it, in my ear.
Ew lmao
- Alinehas quoted3 years ago“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. - Alinehas quoted3 years agoI wished that Achilles would get up. I felt foolish here, on the ground beneath him. And I was also afraid.
"I am no bottom"
- Alinehas quoted3 years agoHe 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?
- raniahas quoted8 hours ago
It is the only memory I have of my mother and so golden that I am almost sure I have made it up. - raniahas quoted8 hours agoI could not sing.
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