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Prince Hector, the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, is the greatest of the warriors defending Troy. He kills Patroclus while Patroclus is fighting in Achilles’s armor. Afterward, Achilles kills Hector and repeatedly defiles Hector’s corpse in revenge, but he returns the corpse to Hector’s father Priam when Priam sneaks into the Greek camp to personally plead for it.
Hector Quotes in The Silence of the Girls
The The Silence of the Girls quotes below are all either spoken by Hector or refer to Hector. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 31
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The defeated go down in history and disappear, and their stories die with them.
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Chapter 36
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He looked hollow, I thought. All that killing, all that revenge . . . Perhaps he’d managed to convince himself that if he did all that—killed Hector, defeated the Trojan army, broke Priam—Patroclus would keep his side of the bargain and stop being dead. We all try to make crazy deals with the gods, often without really knowing we’re doing it.
Chapter 39
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He’s in control of everything he sees.
But every morning, he’s compelled to drive his chariot round and round Patroclus’ grave, to defile Hector’s body, and, in the process—as he understands perfectly well—to dishonour himself. And he has no idea how to make any of it stop.
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Chapter 42
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I do what no man before me has ever done, I kiss the hands of the man who killed my son.
These words echoed round me, as I stood in the storage hut, surrounded on all sides from the wealth Achilles had plundered from burning cities. I thought: And I do what countless women before me have been forced to do. I spread my legs for the man who killed my husband and brothers.
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Chapter 47
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We need a new song.
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Hector Quotes in The Silence of the Girls
The The Silence of the Girls quotes below are all either spoken by Hector or refer to Hector. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 31
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The defeated go down in history and disappear, and their stories die with them.
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Chapter 36
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He looked hollow, I thought. All that killing, all that revenge . . . Perhaps he’d managed to convince himself that if he did all that—killed Hector, defeated the Trojan army, broke Priam—Patroclus would keep his side of the bargain and stop being dead. We all try to make crazy deals with the gods, often without really knowing we’re doing it.
Chapter 39
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He’s in control of everything he sees.
But every morning, he’s compelled to drive his chariot round and round Patroclus’ grave, to defile Hector’s body, and, in the process—as he understands perfectly well—to dishonour himself. And he has no idea how to make any of it stop.
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Chapter 42
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I do what no man before me has ever done, I kiss the hands of the man who killed my son.
These words echoed round me, as I stood in the storage hut, surrounded on all sides from the wealth Achilles had plundered from burning cities. I thought: And I do what countless women before me have been forced to do. I spread my legs for the man who killed my husband and brothers.
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Chapter 47
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We need a new song.
