#this and this and this

[dragonandelm]

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller <3

This book has my WHOLE ENTIRE HEART. I hope I did it justice.

#song of achilles #the song of achilles #madeline miller #this and this and this #they were roommates #bookbinding #rebinding #book rebinding #SoA

[elder-scroller]

Just finished reading tsoa and I need to ask the veterans, does the pain ever end

#the song of achilles #I’ve been crying for over an hour #my sweet boy #my boy has died #this and this and this #patrochilles #madeleine miller #Patroclus you a real one #rip fr

[rainstormraven]

I just finished The Song of Achilles and it will now be the only thing I talk about for the rest of my life. Thank you and good night.

#the song of achilles #my heart was ripped out of my chest and stomped on #it's okay I'm fine #this and this and this #Wolfstar is Patrochilles reincarnated

[folklorin]

realizing that the plot of tsoa is basically patroclus posthumously talking about achilles to his mother thetis shattered my soul into pieces.

#tsoa #when that realization clicked as i was reading the book i broke down #i am made of memories #this and this and this #the song of achilles

[lailaphx-is-havin-a-crisis]

This. This and this.

"I did not have to fear that I spoke too much. I did not have to worry that I was too slender or too slow. This and this and this!"

"Later, we lay on the riverbank, learning the lines of each other's bodies anew. This, and this and this. We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but each other."

"At first it is strange. I am used to keeping him from her, to hoarding him for myself. But the memories well up like springwater, faster than I can hold them back. They do not come as words, but like dreams, rising as scent from the rain-wet earth. This, I say. This and this."

#like this is patroclus before falling in love then IN love then after achilles's death #aahhh i hurt #this and this and this #this broke me istg #tsoa #the song of achilles #tsoa quotes #achilles and patroclus #madelline miller #poetry

[unfilteredflare]

Just finished rereading The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller for the 3rd time

The fucking end gets me every time

So many good quotes. Especially in the last 4 pages.

Just

Thetis coming to stand at their grave and Patroclus is just filled with so much hate and he throws it all in her face. Every time she has fucked up

"You say that Chiron ruined him. You are a goddess, and cold, and know nothing. You are the one who ruined him. Look at how he will be remembered now. Killing Hector, killing Troilus. For things he did cruelly in his grief. Perhaps such things pass for virtue among the gods. But how is there glory in taking a life? We die so easily. Would you make him another Pyrrhus? Let the stories of him be something more."

Or that very next part after that

"Her mouth tightens. 'Have you no more memories?'

"I am made of memories'

'Speak, then."

Or the whole next 2 paragraphs of him describing his memories

"At first it is strange. I am used to keeping him from her, to hoarding him for myself. But the memories well up like spring water, faster than I can hold them back. They do not come as words, but like dreams, rising as scent from the rain-wet earth. This, I say. This and this. The way his hair looked in summer sun. His face when he ran. His eyes, solemn as an owl at lessons. This and this and this. So many moments of happiness, crowding forward."

How Patroclus and Thetis bond over their love and loss of Achilles

"I conjure the boy I knew. Achilles, grinning as the figs blur in his hands. His green eyes laughing into mine. 'Catch,' he says. Achilles, outlined against the sky, hanging from a branch over the river. The thick warmth of his sleepy breath against my ear. 'If you have to go I will follow'. My fears forgotten in the golden harbour of his arms.

The memories come, and come. She listens, staring into the grain of the stone. We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both."

What really gets me is Thetis bonding with Patroclus and giving him the greatest gift in the world, to be reuinited with Achilles since she cant

The best line of tbe entire book is the last line:

"In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood, like a hundred golden urns pouring out the sun."

#all of my favorite lines r in the last chapter #i am made of memories #this and this and this #pouring out the sun #yes i know its a tragic book about the lives and deaths of achilles and patroclus #but it has a happy ending #but everyone refuses to read the book becuz they think 'they die at the end and its sad so i dont wanna' #but its like #there is still a whole 2 chapters after achilles death #there is more #they r reunited #its a happy ending #but its not like u can just tell someone that #its spoilers

[iconicthot]

I miss this book so much already

#I would know it even in madness #the lyre #this and this and this #the song of achilles #tsoa

[just-me-in-my-head]

If anyone says "this and this and this" in a five mile radius of me, I am going to burst into tears, complete with demon screeching.

#the song of achilles #madeline miller #this and this and this #why did i read this book? #my heart is broken #i am dead #so anyway i just finished the song of achilles if anyone was wondering

[peachyxlynch]

fuck romeo & juliet , i want what they had

lust vs love

#song of achilles #patroclus #achillies #half of my soul #this and this and this

[mistressaccost]

my mental health is so fragile that at any moment any single line from the song of achilles can push me over the edge

#i can feel the tears prickling my eyes already #THIS AND THIS AND THIS #the song of achilles #tsoa #patrochilles #madeline miller

[oliveandjune]

You’re at the library.

The window is open.

Birds are singing.

Sun is shining.

You are surrounded by old books.

Suddenly a smell of coffee.

You look down:

A coffee cup and a note.

This and this and this.

#this and this and this #books & libraries #birds singing #coffee #still don't know how to use hashtags

[vir-adahlen]

oh im a good ole fashioned just-finished-a-story mess! sometimes i worry ive outgrown this feeling but of course i haven’t! im alive and i don’t know anything!

#this and this and this #text //

[chickie-empress-kie]

Bitches really be simpin over dudes and dames with Mental Illness, huh ?

.

.

It’s me.

I’m Bitches.

#its me #meme #anime love #reblog if you agree #THIS AND THIS AND THIS #fandom craze

[reebichu]

#tsoa #song of achilles #patroclus #i will love them for eternity #this and this and this #im not crying u r

[animaavocaret]

songs from my tsoa playlist as tsoa quotes

He smiled, and his face was like the sun.name one hero who was happy...i’m going to be the first. -- east by sleeping at last

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. -- surrender by natalie taylor

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. -- help me out by alicks

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun. -- six feet under by billie eilish

When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him. -- two ghosts by harry styles

There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw. -- achilles come down by gang of youths

“Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I. -- iris by the goo goo dolls

I am made of memories. -- saturn by sleeping at last

He smiled, and his face was like the sun. -- king by lauren aquilina

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature. -- i am by jorja smith

I closed my eyes. “Tell me again,” I said. -- chanel by frank ocean

"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved. -- sunny december by bombadil

I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. -- i will follow you into the dark by death cab for cutie

#he is half my soul as the poets say #and #this and this and this #were too beautiful #not even music could encompass their beauty #achilles #patroclus #patrochilles #tsoa #the song of achilles #madeline miller

[amscraypunk]

Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all. The sudden swoop of my stomach, the coursing anger. I was like a fish eyeing the hook.

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Just another in the endless line of pain-inducing quotes from my reread

#everything is fine #tsoa #the song of achilles #this and this and this #patrochilles