Quotes About Regret

I waited. I still hoped Glaucos would think of me. I would have married him in a moment. But I found myself hoping for another thing too, which I would not have believed the day before: that he would weep all the salt in his veins for Scylla's return, holding fast to her as his one, true love.

L'ultima cosa che penso è: Achille.

Plus tard , Achille dort à côté de moi. L'orage annoncé par Ulysse est arrivé, et le tissu rugueux de la tente tremble sous sa force. j'entends les vagues cinglantes gifler la grève , comme un reproche. Achille remue, et l'air remue avec lui, répandant la douce odeur musquée de son corps. Je pense que c'est ce qui va me manquer. Je pense que je me tuerai plutôt que de vivre ce manque et je me demande combien de temps il nous reste.

Almost, I can imagine that this is my life, held in the sweet circle of her arms. I would marry her, and we would have a child. Perhaps if I had never known Achilles.

Achille fa scattare la mano per agguantare la spada e tagliarsi la gola. È solo quando la solleva vuota che ricorda: ha dato la spada a me.

What was his best part?" "His lover, Patroclus. He didn't like me much, but then the good ones never do. Achilles went mad when he died; nearly mad, anyway.

J'avais commis tant d'erreurs que je ne pouvais pas remonter jusqu'à la première dans le labyrinthe qu'elles formaient.

Its burst of grainy sweetness filled my mouth; the skin was downy on my tongue. I had loved figs, once.

But the ache for him is stronger than my anger. I want to speak of something not dead or divine. I want him to live.

Per un attimo Odisseo quasi mi piacque. Ma ormai avevo visto i suoi sorrisi una volta di troppo.

Je n'aurais pas été honnête de regretter ce qui m'avait donné la vie.

I hope that Hector kills you" The breath rasps in his throat. "Do you think I do not hope the same?" he asks

La culpa me inmovilizaba en la cama como si se tratara de un ancla. Solo me hizo mover el recuerdo hiriente de Quirón. «No renuncies a las cosas con tanta facilidad como hiciste una vez».

those things that steady a man. They were unmarried when they left. They had no children. They had no years of lean harvest, when they must scrape the bottom of their stores, and no good years either, that they might learn to save. They have not seen their parents grow old and begin to fail. They have not seen them die. I fear I have robbed them not only of their youth but their age as well.

Du trauerst nicht um deinen Vater? - Doch. Ich betrauere, dass ich nie den Vater kennengelernt habe, von dem mir alle erzählen.

War breeds many sins (…)

Well. We are settled then." He turns to go, stops. "I was sorry to hear of Patroclus' death. He fought bravely today. Did you hear he killed Sarpedon?" Achilles' eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. "I wish he had let you all die.

I should have known better than to call upon the gods.

Her black eyes seem to contract, like dying stars. "I am glad that he is dead," she says. It is the last thing she will ever say to him.

Ma dernière pensée est pour Achille.

I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop of heartsblood lost.

You care more for him in death than in life.

Suspiró con fatiga. —Eres mejor hombre que yo. Eso era el comienzo de una esperanza. Nos habíamos infligido heridas el uno al otro, pero ninguna mortal. […] Habría un después tras todo esto. —No, eso no es cierto. —Me levanté y me dirigí hacia él. Puse una mano sobre su piel tibia—. Hoy te has perdido y luego te has encontrado.

No logré darle la divinidad —dice Tetis con voz quebrada y llena de pesar. —Pero le diste la vida.