Stephen Fry

Heroes

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'I still don't understand why you have to leave?'

'My mother is not one to be refused,' said Achilles with a rueful smile. 'She has a strange bee buzzing in her ear. She is convinced there is a war coming and that if I fight in it I will be killed.'

'No, said Patroclus, 'but you are afraid of your mother.'

“It's so small,” he said, tucking the package under his arm, “and so crudely carved.”

“I know,” said Helen. “Like all sacred and truly precious objects it is very plain. Only profane things are beautiful.”

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