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Well, both of those things came true, even way earlier than I had initially anticipated. 2.) It wouldn’t only leave me devastated and heartbroken but also sobbing like a little child. ”We were like gods, at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.” This book!!! Gosh I loved this book!!! The moment I read the first page I was already certain of two things: 1.) This would become one of my all-time favourites and I’d gush about it like crazy. There is this saying in my country: "Love is when you can't unite." (less) And such love stories seldom have happy endings too. Health, prosperity, order, a bright future for the next generations are all important too. It is all too possible that, had they survived, Achilles and Patroclus might have had problems with the demands of being a prince, or keeping things secret or the fact that at some point one of them might want kids.Īnd I wouldn't wish it for us because great love stories seem to come at the cost of a happy life. I am sure such great love stories were lived but not written during WWII, or back when smallpox was taking lives. Maybe I am not yet rubbed raw from life that I believe in such love, but the ideal love we always read and watch about always happens with a plot that puts a deadline to it, and the running time makes everything else irrelevant. It leaves behind only the most primary of your thoughts and emotions, and if we're lucky they are love and concern for our loved ones and a singular desire to protect them from harm. Death in close proximity always robs us of our over-thinking, our scheming or doubts. Achilles and Patroclus were boys still when they reached Troy and grew up under the most extraordinary of circumstances a war.

(.)" Such love is common when we're kids, and more common still under extraordinary circumstances. Tyler Durden said it first "We’re the middle children of history, man.

Tyler Durden said it first "We’re the middle child …more I have just finished the book, and I think it is not that improbable but I wouldn't wish it for us. Kiara I have just finished the book, and I think it is not that improbable but I wouldn't wish it for us. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice.more Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods' wrath. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. They are tr Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him. Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him.