بریده‌های کتاب The Song of Achilles

A god. I could not imagine him so. Gods were cold and distant, far off as the moon, nothing like his bright eyes, the warm mischief of his smiles.

چشم های تیره اش مثل جزر و مد تو رو به سمت خودش می کشید، حتی اگه تو خلاف جهت شنا می کردی.

وقتی که زنده بود باید بهش بیشتر اهمیت می‌دادی نه حالا که مرده.

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?

"آشیل؟ من طاقت دیدن غم و سوگواری تورو ندارم"

او حتی زحمت تهدید کردنم را به خودش نداد. به خاطرش ازش متنفر شدم، من باید ارزش تهدید شدن را داشته باشم.

آیا هنگامی که خاکسترش را روی خاکسترم می‌ریزند احساسش خواهم کرد؟

"من نتونستم ازش یه خدا بسازم." "ولی تو ساختی."

اهمیتی نداره هرکس اهل کجا باشه ، ارزشش بیشتر از دیگری نیست .

توی تاریکی، دو سایه، توی غروب ناامید کننده و سنگینی شکل میگیرن دست هاشون به هم می‌رسه و نور مثل صد کوزه ی طلا بالای سرشون از خورشید بیرون می‌ریزه

The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to Troy and I would follow, even into death.

«اگه مجبور شدی بری، می‌دونی که من باهات میام»

شاید اندوه اصلی این باشه که وقتی عزیزت دنیا رو ترک می‌کنه تو هنوز زنده مونده باشی.

“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 not let what you gained this Day be so easily lost

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.

The rosy gleam of his lip, the fevered green of his eyes. There was not a line anywhere on his face, nothing creased or graying; all crisp. He was spring, golden and bright. Envious Death would drink his blood, and grow young again.

"اون یه سلاحه، یک قاتل. این رو فراموش نکن.تو می تونی از نیزه به عنوان عصا استفاده کنی، اما این ماهیتش رو تغییر نمیده."