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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.

Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart.more Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus journeys with Achilles to Troy, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear. But then word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped. By all rights their paths should never cross, but Achilles takes the shamed prince as his friend, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles' mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. By all rights their paths should never cross, but Achilles takes the shamed prince as his friend, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasur Greece in the age of heroes.