Love Quotes Quote by Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

““That is — your friend?"”

““Name one hero who was happy."”

“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.”

“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.”

““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. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S.”

““Let me die the moment my love dies.”

“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.”

“I prayed for all his dreams to come true. I prayed that I would always be able to connect with him--even if I was no longer on earth.”

“Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.”

“Whoever debases others is debasing himself.”

“I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly”