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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.
— Madeline Miller
It seemed absurd even to think of it, foolish and improbable as a dream is by dinner.
— Madeline Miller
We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.
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Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all.
— Madeline Miller
Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.
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He waits for you.
— Madeline Miller
It is right to seek peace for the dead. You and I both know there is no peace for those who live after.
— Madeline Miller
Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.
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This and this and this.
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I feel like I could eat the world raw.
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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.
— Madeline Miller
I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.
— Madeline Miller
Later, Achilles pressed close for a final, drowsy whisper. 'If you have to go, you know I will go with you.' We slept.
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Nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.
— Madeline Miller
He did not fear ridicule, he had never known it.
— Madeline Miller
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.
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For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty?
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I am made of memories.
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The door snicked shut.
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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.
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We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.
— Madeline Miller
Where there is greed, there is hope.
— Madeline Miller
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?
— Madeline Miller
Bring him back to me,' he told them.
— Madeline Miller
Who was he if not destined for fame?
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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.
— Madeline Miller
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.
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He is half of my soul, as the poets say.
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Name one hero who was happy. You can't.
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Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.
— Madeline Miller
Prince Achilles! Aristos Achaion! As
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I am air and thought and can do nothing.
— Madeline Miller
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.
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The sound was pure and sweet as water, bright as lemons.
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We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.
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Divine blood purified our muddy race, bred heroes from dust and clay.
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And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.
— Madeline Miller
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.
— Madeline Miller
This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old.
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When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.
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And when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious
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We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.
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And her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.
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Go," She says. "He waits for you.
— Madeline Miller
Swear it.
Why me?
Because you're the reason. — Madeline Miller
Why me?
Because you're the reason. — Madeline Miller
There is no honour in betraying your friends.
— Madeline Miller
My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.
— Madeline Miller
Have you no memories?'
I am made of memories.
'Then speak. — Madeline Miller
I am made of memories.
'Then speak. — Madeline Miller
Our dead come for their vengeance regardless of witnesses
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Indeed, he seemed utterly unaware of his effect on the boys around him.
— Madeline Miller
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.
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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.
— Madeline Miller
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
— Madeline Miller
You do not command me. The silence went on and on, painful and breathless, like a singer overreaching to finish a phrase. Then,
— Madeline Miller
He is half my soul, as the poets say.
— Madeline Miller
He smiled, and his face was like the sun.
— Madeline Miller
Do you think Aristos Achaion fights in hopeless wars?
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Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.
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And perhaps you should get some new stories, so I don't fucking kill myself of boredom.
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Name one hero who was happy.
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You make the rarest canvas, love
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I wish he had let you all die
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He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?
— Madeline Miller
Divine blood flows differently in each god-born child.
— Madeline Miller