Patroclus Quotes

He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight.

~ Madeline Miller

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.

~ Madeline Miller

Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm!

~ Augustus Taber Murray

We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.

~ Madeline Miller

Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.

~ Madeline Miller

Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.

~ Madeline Miller

When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.

~ Madeline Miller

Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.

~ Madeline Miller

Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.

~ Madeline Miller

Peleus acknowledged this. Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will you tell them? I will tell them nothing. The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. It is not for them to say what I will do.

~ Madeline Miller

The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.

~ Thomas C. Foster

Indeed, he seemed utterly unaware of his effect on the boys around him.

~ Madeline Miller