The Song of Achilles

Book · 4 characters · 91 quotes · 2011

Quotes from The Song of Achilles

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"I am grateful for every moment I had with him."
Patroclus Gratitude
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"He is my song, my story, my everything."
Patroclus Love
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"I choose love over duty."
Patroclus Love
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"I will not live in a world where he does not exist."
Patroclus
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"He looked at me as if I were the only thing that mattered."
Patroclus Love
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"I have known perfection, and his name is Achilles."
Patroclus Beauty
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"He was my greatest achievement and my deepest wound."
Patroclus Love
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"The gods do not understand love as we do."
Achilles Wisdom
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"I am nothing without him."
Patroclus Love
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"He makes me brave."
Patroclus Courage
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"I would choose him in every lifetime."
Patroclus Love
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"He is my anchor in the chaos."
Patroclus Love
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"I will follow him anywhere, even to death."
Patroclus
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"He taught me that life is not measured in years but in moments."
Patroclus Wisdom
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"I have always been second, and I have never minded."
Patroclus
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"He was worth the cost."
Patroclus
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"I learned early on that we are not promised tomorrow."
Patroclus Time
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"He is everything I am not, and everything I wish to be."
Patroclus
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"Some gifts are curses."
Thetis Wisdom
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"I will die as I have lived, without apology."
Achilles Courage
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"He is like a golden age—unrepeatible, irreplaceable."
Patroclus Beauty
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"I want to live."
Patroclus Life
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"Everything that was possible died with him."
Patroclus Death
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"I have never known the world where I was not waiting for him."
Patroclus Love
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"There is no honour in killing men who are not a challenge."
Achilles Courage
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"You make me want to live."
Achilles Love
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"I am sorry for the darkness in which men must live, but I cannot change it."
Achilles Truth
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"I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way the air moved around him."
Patroclus Love
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"The gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment may be our last."
Achilles Wisdom
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"I am made of memories."
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