the song of achilles💫 @patrochillesbot
quotes from the novel 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller | header by @awanqi | tweets every hour ✨ Mount Pelion Joined April 2023-
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We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake in this room loving him in silence.
When at last they pulled off the veil, they say my mother smiled. That is how they knew she was quite stupid. Brides did not smile.
Our mouths opened under each other, and the warmth of his sweetened throat poured into mine. I could not think, could not do anything but drink him in,each breath as it came, the soft movements of his lips. It was a miracle.
I saw him hesitate. But we did not lie to each other; we never had. “I asked her to protect you,” he said. “After.” I stared at him, dry-mouthed. “What did she say?” Another silence. Then, so quietly I could imagine the dull red shame of his cheeks, he answered, “She said no.”
“True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another.” He spread his broad hands. “We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?”
It was not honor that made Meleager fight, or his friends, or victory, or revenge, or even his own life. It was Cleopatra, on her knees before him, her face streaked with tears. Here is (his) craft: Cleopatra, Patroclus. Her name built from the same pieces as mine, only reversed.
I took a look at Achilles, standing by the side of the chariot, almost forlorn. I reached for his hand –“Be careful,” he said. “I will.” There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be – tonight and tomorrow and all the days after that. He let go of my hand.
He turns away again–I stare at his unspeaking back. I memorize each fold in his tunic– drying salt and sand stuck to his skin. When he speaks at last, his voice is weary, and defeated. He doesn’t know how to be angry with me, either. We are like damp wood that won’t light.
His eyelids were the color of the dawn sky; he smelled like earth after rain.
“Patroclus,” he said, a summons. I walked forward, and he placed his hand, large and warm as the sun, on my head. I breathed in the scent that was his alone, horse and sweat and herbs and forest. His voice was quiet. “You do not give things up so easily now as you once did,”
As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong. “Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.
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 lean forward and our lips land clumsily on each other. They are like the fat bodies of bees, soft and round and giddy with pollen. I can taste his mouth—hot and sweet with honey from dessert. My stomach trembles, and a warm drop of pleasure spreads beneath my skin. More.
I was drenched and giddy. I had found a way through the endless corridors of his pride and fury. I would save the men; I would save him from himself. “You will let me?” He hesitated another moment, his green eyes searching mine. Then, slowly, he nodded.
Later, Achilles sleeps next to me...He stirs and the air stirs with him, bearing the musk-sweet smell of his body. 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?
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. 'No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.'
The voice again, measured and deliberate. “I am assuming, Achilles Pelides, that this is why you have not yet joined me on the mountain?” My mind groped towards understanding. Achilles had not gone to Chiron. He had waited, here. For me.
The pain on his face struck me, and I was ashamed. Where was my promise that I would forgive him? I knew what his destiny was, and I had chosen to come to Troy anyway. It was too late for me to object simply because my conscience had begun to chafe.
Achilles returned to his strings, and the music rose again. This time he sang also, weaving his own accompaniment with a clear, rich treble. His head fell back a little, exposing his throat... Without meaning to I found myself leaning forward.
We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned. “I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
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