The best Quotes from The Song of Achilles

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.

Nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

Name one hero who was happy.

I am made of memories.

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.

We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

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

"There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles," Chiron said. "And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?"

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.

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

Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all.

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

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

It's our "white" responsibility to make sure people who speak out about racism are safe at all times. This means ending structural racism in our societies, authorities and media.

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

Well roar'd Lion.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.