The Silence of the Girls
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“Memory plays strange tricks. ”
“How do you separate a tiger’s beauty from its ferocity? Or a cheetah’s elegance from the speed of its attack? Achilles was like that—the beauty and the terror were two sides of a single coin.”
“..but then in my experience men are curiously blind to aggression in women. They're the warriors, with their helmets and armour, their swords and spears, and they don't seem to see our battles or they prefer not to. Perhaps if they realized we're not the gentle creatures they take us for their own peace of mind would be disturbed.”
“At times, as I thought of my brothers, I felt something like exhilaration. As long as I lived and remembered, they weren’t entirely dead.”
“Sometimes at night I lie awake and quarrel with the voices in my head.”
“Like I say, it was almost impossible to keep track of time in that camp, I seemed to be living in a bubble, no past, no future, only an endless repetition of now and now and now. But I think perhaps the change started in me.”
He'd become Achilles. Isn't that love's highest aim? Not the interchange of two free minds, but a single, fused identity?