The Song of Achilles

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

"I would follow him into any darkness."

"The gods will remember our names."

"He made me believe in something beyond myself."

"I choose him over everything, again and again."

"He was everything I was not."

"I will not let him go."

"I have always been afraid of losing him."

"Beauty is a curse to those who possess it."

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

"I would burn the world if it meant saving him."

"We do not choose our gifts; we are chosen by them."

"I am a thing made of bone and light."

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

"A god's gift is always a curse in disguise."

"I would rather have him alive than glorified."

"The gods have their favorites, and I am cursed to be one of them."

"I do not know how to live without him."

"Every step forward is a step toward glory or toward death."

"I could refuse to fight. But we both knew I wouldn't."

"Your mother's name was Thetis, which means movement."

"A man can be anything he wishes, if he has the will for it."

"The truth is, I liked being different."

"He was like honey, and I was the bee."

"I am tired of empty spaces."

"There is no honor in taking the son when you could take the father."

"I could deny the gods everything else, but I could not deny them you."

"I am whole because of him."

"He will live forever in my heart."

"He changed me in ways I cannot express."