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I would still be with you. But I could sleep outside, so it would not be so obvious. I do not need to attend your councils. I—' 'No. The Phthians will not care. And the others can talk all they like. I will still be Aristos Achaion.' Best of the Greeks. 'Your honor could be darkened by it." 'Then it is darkened.' His jaw shot forward, stubborn. 'They are fools if they let my glory rise or fall on this.

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I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.

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There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is …

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I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from me, giddy with fre…

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In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pou…

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People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of chariots - but experience…

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

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

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Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

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He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

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