Quotes About Achilles And Patroclus

#1. 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

#2. Never run in the rain with your socks on.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#3. 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

#4. Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.

P.G. Wodehouse

#5. 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

#6. So one day, in a fit of trying to do something different, I just dyed my hair dark brown and got my first role a week later, after which I thought: 'People are closed-minded, man! Like a different hair colour changes everything!'

Emma Stone

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

Thomas C. Foster

#8. The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant-baptism and holy communion-must be denied citizenship.

Gary North

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

Madeline Miller

#10. I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#11. 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

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

Madeline Miller

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

Madeline Miller

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

Madeline Miller

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. The fact that we're spending $700 billion a year on oil is actually a good thing; it means we have the prosperity to do it. It means that oil's being used, and oil is the fuel for the engine of freedom.

Rush Limbaugh

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

Madeline Miller

#19. How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Anthony Ashley Cooper

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

Madeline Miller

#21. 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

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

Madeline Miller

#23. It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

Ban Ki-moon

#24. 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

#25. The only way to consistently perform at your potential is to ask: Am I better than I was yesterday?

Chris Matakas

#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. The definition of success in life has many different meanings. Don't compare your journey to the journey of others. Only you know where the journey began and how very far you have come.

Eleanor Brownn

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

Madeline Miller

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Madeline Miller

#32. 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

#33. Because they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, he gave them over to a reprobate mind

William Wilberforce

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

Madeline Miller

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

Madeline Miller