Another Day Spent Sobbing Over Patrochilles - Blog Posts

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

-TSOA, Madeline Miller

set during the events of hades

He smiled, and his face was like the sun.

TSOA, Madeline Miller

We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake, loving him in silence.

TSOA, Madeline Miller.

He would sail to Troy and I would follow, even into death.

TSOA, Madeline Miller.

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell. I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

TSOA, Madeline Miller

When he died, all things swift and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.

TSOA, Madeline Miller.

There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.

TSOA, Madeline Miller

This and this and this.

TSOA, Madeline Miller

Philtatos.

TSOA, Madeline Miller.

A sly smile spread across his face; he had always loved defiance.

TSOA, Madeline Miller

I am made of memories.

TSOA, Madeline Miller

Pa-tro-clus.

TSOA, Madeline Miller

What has Hector ever done to me?

TSOA, Madeline Meyer

He is half of my soul, as the poets say.

TSOA, Madeline Miller

And perhaps it is greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

TSOA, Madeline Miller

I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.

TSOA, Madeline Miller

We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but each other.

TSOA, Madeline Miller