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I‘m already crying and they haven‘t even boarded the ship yet.

They leaned towards him, like flowers to the sun, drinking in his luster. It was as Odysseus had said: he had light enough to make heroes of them all.

I wish that they could have stayed this happy 🥺

This is my sixth re-read. I always know what happens next. But every time I reach this part, I‘m still not feady for it.

Most people only grieve for Patroclus, but I think it's also some of Achilles' goodness and kind heart that we lose to the war throughout the story.

“It was that moment, perhaps, that our lives changed. Not before in Scyros, nor before that still, on Pelion. But here, as we began to understand the grandness, now and always, that would follow him wherever he went.”

In my mind, the book ends here. There is no war, and everyone is happy 😭

“As if he heard me, he smiled, and his face was like the sun”