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“so I will try again and again, if you will have me.” “And if I will not?” “Then I will go back to Maeonia. And I will have learned how painful it is not to have what you desire.”
“Maybe she won’t be dangerous,” Clytemnestra points out. “Maybe,” Tantalus says, “but children usually grow up to be like their parents.”
Circe ref
She sees that her mother can be two different people and that the best version appears when her father isn’t around.
“Call Tantalus, Helen,” Leda says. “And then tell your father your sister is pregnant.”
Bruh
“Sooner or later, you will die. And I will not mourn you. I will look at the flames consuming your body, and I will rejoice.”
Period
“They say he lives with his companion, Patroclus,” Timandra says. “They eat together, play together, sleep together. Everyone knows about them. But this doesn’t taint Achilles’s reputation. He is still aristos Achaion.” She uses the words for “best of the Greeks.”
“If you talk about my sister again, I will strangle you in your sleep.”
It is as if she needs her sister’s fervor to light the world around her, but it reminds her that, without it, her life would be gray and musty.
“It is noble to be gentle, to save others from pain. But it is also dangerous. Sometimes you have to make life difficult for others before they make it impossible for you.”
Maybe he is luckier in that way, she thinks. Maybe it is good for him never to have what he desires. Then others can’t come and take it from him.
I know what’s gonna happen and I’m NOT happy :(((
