THE SONG OF ACHILLES
-Madeline Miller.

"I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world."

"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"

"There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles," Chiron said."And perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone"."

"He is half of my soul, as the poets say"

"I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.
"Patroclus," he said. He was always better with words than I."

"When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him."