39 Quotes About Iliad
- Author Janell Rhiannon
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Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.
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- Author Emily Hauser
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Choose,' she says, reaching out towards him. 'Choose to which of us the apple most belongs...
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- Author Barbara Leonie Picard
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...in his wild grief Achilles cried aloud, and his mother Thetis heard him...Immediately she rose up through the water...after her came her sisters...and each one's wailing was the thin sound of the wind upon the waves.
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- Author Janell Rhiannon
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Do all in Troy despise me?''That is a strong word, my sweet.'The young Queen of Sparta pulled away from her lover's arms. 'It is true then. I have exchanged one prison for another.'Paris gently brushed her cheek with his hand. 'If that is true, we are the most fortunate of prisoners. For we have each other and our love.
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- Author Janell Rhiannon
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Helen looked up at Paris, her face wet with tears and blotchy with grief, and nodded her consent. 'Together we are chained on rocks before the beast of Poseidon. Naked and bare and helpless.''But we are more fortunate.''How so?' Helen asked.'We have each other as comfort in our misery.
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- Author Janell Rhiannon
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Briseis blinked, shaking her head in disbelief. 'You have taken everything from me. My husband. My brothers. My father. You have given me no word of my mother. There is nowhere else for me to go.''I expect too much,' he stated.'Their faces fade from my memory,' Briseis said, quietly. 'Without them, I have nothing.
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- Author Janell Rhiannon
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I could not burn your mortality from your body, so live before your days are gone and regret fills your heart.
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- Author Janell Rhiannon
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He must lay siege against Briseis' walls and conquer her. Love would be his sword and he would break all her chains.
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