• Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

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• "I remembered how hard a thing indifference was to bear."
• "The pain was welcome, ordinary and clean. So easy to bear it was laughable."
• "True is what men believe, and they believe this of you."
• "My shame is caustic, searing every nerve. It is like a nightmare; I expect, each moment, to wake to relief. But there is no waking. It is true. He will not help."
• "My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse: I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood. Only that seems large enough to hold all of my rage and grief. I want the world overturned like a bowl of eggs, smashed at my feet."
• "He likes this image of himself, the wronged young man, stoically accepting the theft of his prize, a martyrdom for the whole camp to see."
• "'Will you tell me who hurt you?' I imagine saying, 'You.' But that is nothing more than childishness."
• "We have given each other wounds, but they are not mortal. -- There will be a moment after this, and another after that."
• "Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. 'No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.'"