The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

“Do not let what you gained this day be so easily lost.”

But most ugly of all are his eyes: blue, bright blue. When people see them, they flinch. Such things are freakish. He is lucky he was not killed at birth.

This just made me laugh

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. “No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”