Madeline Miller Quotes
Top 71 wise famous quotes and sayings by Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller Famous Quotes & Sayings
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She wears a cape, and it is this that undoes her - that allows her to be pulled, limbs light and poised as a cat, from her horse.
We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.
Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all.
Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.
It is right to seek peace for the dead. You and I both know there is no peace for those who live after.
Her mouth was a gash of red, like the torn-open stomach of a sacrifice, bloody and oracular. Behind it her teeth shone sharp and white as bone.
I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.
Later, Achilles pressed close for a final, drowsy whisper. 'If you have to go, you know I will go with you.' We slept.
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.
He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.
I think: this is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: how long do we have?
When he speaks at last, his voice is weary, and defeated. He doesn't know how to be angry with me, either. We are like damp wood that won't light.
I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop of heartsblood lost.
He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.
As for the goddess's answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone.
I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.
They leaned towards him, like flowers to the sun, drinking in his luster. It was as Odysseus had said: he had light enough to make heroes of them all.
This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector
You do not command me. The silence went on and on, painful and breathless, like a singer overreaching to finish a phrase. Then,
He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?