Madeline Miller Quotes
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No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.
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My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.
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. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.
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and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.
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The door snicked shut.
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She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened.…
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Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in…
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When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots. Learning…
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I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the…
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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…
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I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. If I had had words to speak…
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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…
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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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I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from…
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There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,†Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on…
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I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some…
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I would still be with you. But I could sleep outside, so it would not be so obvious. I do not need to attend your…
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In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns…
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I feel like I could eat the world raw.
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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…
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