#i knew this book would break my heart&it did not disappoint lmaoooo. i regret nothing as w all of millers other works

[jvzebel-x]

"Did she really think I would not know him? I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell. I would know him blind-- by the way his breaths came, and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world."

Patroclus (about Achilles)

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"There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw."

Achilles (to Hector)

x. "The Song of Achilles", Madeline Miller

#The Song of Achilles #Madeline Miller #📚 #i knew this book would break my heart&it did not disappoint lmaoooo. i regret nothing as w all of millers other works #this was beautiful&intense&this particular one made me sob LMAO. it is. very rare that i find depictions of love that i recognize #as familiar-- at least familiar to how i feel&experience it lmao. it made it particularly painful at the end lmaoooo #from patroclus' total+happy willingness to follow achilles anywhere&build a life around being that support for no reason other than love #to achilles refusal to so much as pretend that he isnt who he is&neither is his love (&his total heartwrenching meltdown at his loss) #to knowing that no matter how good&pure&total the love is the vast majority of ppl will insist-- even in death-- that one was #not worthy of the love of another. #i. get it. lmao. i get it all. #something something whats more romantic than a willingness to bleed&die for another? whats more holy? #what is more loving than sacrifice? what is more of a sacrifice than death? #... something something i have been accused of being in love w the idea of love&perhaps that isnt totally off base lmao. #i am a being of obsession&whimsy clear across the spectrum lmao &that very often just isnt healthy. :')♡ #... this book actually kind of confirms that point lmao.