Achilles Patroclus Quotes

#1. You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.

Michael Schur

#2. Achilles' eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. I wish he had let you all die.

Madeline Miller

#3. I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. ACHILLES, it reads. And beside it, PATROCLUS.
"Go," she says. "He waits for you.

Madeline Miller

#4. The heat rose up my neck, wrapped fingers over my face. His hair fell around me, and I could smell nothing but him. The grain of his lips seemed to rest a hairsbreadth from mine.

Madeline Miller

#5. When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.

Madeline Miller

#6. This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old.

Madeline Miller

#7. We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.

Madeline Miller

#8. As for the goddess's answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone.

Madeline Miller

#9. Indeed, he seemed utterly unaware of his effect on the boys around him.

Madeline Miller

#10. The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

Barton Gellman

#11. The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.

Thomas C. Foster

#12. No matter how much time we spent together, parts of my world would always be as alien to him as parts of his were to me. That was oddly comforting, and gave me the strength I needed to do what had to be done. "You?

Seanan McGuire

#13. And overpowered by memory
Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely
For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching
Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself,
Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again
And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.

Homer

#14. I think: this is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: how long do we have?

Madeline Miller

#15. We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

Leo Ornstein

#16. That is - your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.

Madeline Miller

#17. In making Achilles and Patroclus lovers, I wasn't trying to speak for all gay men, just as when I write straight characters, I don't claim to speak for all straight people. My job as an author is to give voice to these very particular characters - these two men, in this time, and in this place

Madeline Miller

#18. Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.

Madeline Miller

#19. Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.

Madeline Miller

#20. Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.

Madeline Miller

#21. He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.

Madeline Miller

#22. We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.

Madeline Miller

#23. So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian.

Evelyn Waugh

#24. This is how I think of us, when I remember our nights at Troy: Achilles and I beside each other, Phoinix smiling and Automedon stuttering through the punch lines of jokes, and Briseis with her secret eyes and quick, spilling laughter.

Madeline Miller

#25. Peleus acknowledged this. "Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will you tell them?"
"I will tell them nothing." The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. "It is not for them to say what I will do.

Madeline Miller

#26. The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to Troy and I would follow, even into death.

Madeline Miller

#27. Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all.

Madeline Miller

#28. I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

Alan Ball

#29. We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.

Madeline Miller

#30. My lord, it is Patroclus, he is dead, his armour taken.. Hector is to blame.' There was a chilling silence, then a sudden intake of breath. Then a cry, low rising, increasing, then torn out of him, turned out of the depth of Hades... For Achilles, the only word 'Patroclus.

Byrne Fone