Messenger Boy : King Agamemnon has sent for you.Achilles : Tell the king it can wait until morning.Messenger Boy : Umm... it is morning.
Achilles : Who are you?Priam : I have endured what no one on earth has endured before. I kissed the hands of the man who killed my son.Achilles :Priam? How did you get in here?Priam : I know my country better than the Greeks, I think.Achilles : You are a brave man. I could have your head on a spit in the blink of an eye.Priam : Do you really think death frightens me now? I watched my eldest son die, watched you drag his body behind your chariot. Give him back to me. He deserves a proper burial, you know that. Give him to me.Achilles : He killed my cousin.Achilles : He thought it was you. How many cousins have you killed? How many sons and fathers and brothers and husbands? How many, brave Achilles?
I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
The gods envy us.