Madeline Miller Quotes

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• No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.
• My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.
• . . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.
• and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.
• The door snicked shut.
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I feel like I could eat the world raw.
• 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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