Patroclus

"I have never known what to do with unwanted pity."

"I loved him like a brother. No. More."

"I have always been afraid of losing him."

"He was everything I was not."

"He made me believe in something beyond myself."

"I would follow him into any darkness."

"I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way the air moved around him."

"He does not come back to himself. He is mended but not whole."

"We are only human. We rage and we ache and sometimes we crack."

"I have never been worried about anything as much as I am about this."

"The world breaks everyone, and some are strong in the broken places."

"I have lost everything but I have still kept this."

"Love is a poison and I took it willingly."

"The war will end, and you will still be you."

"He was my person, above all things."

"I learned to read death in his eyes."

"A man is not made by his strength alone."

"I chose you. I will always choose you."

"The world will forget us, but we will remember each other."

"I will not let them take this from us."

"We are more than the sum of what the world expects."

"His hand in mine was home."

"I learned to live with the unbearable."