Achilles Quote by Madeline Miller Download Open image ““That is — your friend?" "Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”” — Madeline Miller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Achilles Death Death of a loved one Friendship Greek Greek mythology Lgbt Lgbtq Love Mythology Patroclus Trojan war
“Priam's eyes find the other body, mine, lying on the bed. He hesitates a moment. 'That is --- your friend?' 'Philtatos,' Achilles says, sharply.… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Later Achilles would play the lyre, as Chiron and I listened. My mother's lyre. He had brought it with him. 'I wish I had… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“You think Achilles was of impressive descent? Touch me one more time. Maybe it’s time we found out what the daughter of the mightiest… — Elisabeth Hewer Copy Share Image
“Achilles pauses, looks over his shoulder at the masses of men behind him, turns back, looks past Zeus toward Olympos and the masses of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“You're mine," he said. "You can deny it, argue, throw fits, try to run away. But. You're. Still. Mine." ~Dragos” — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
“But you see, Crumb, it is hard to give up what you have worked at since you were a boy. There were some Italian… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“It is in the character of very few people to honour a prosperous friend without envy, and these very few people tend to become… — Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar Copy Share Image
“You're half-dead, yet you have the vigor to philander? I was stabbed, not castrated.” — Cheryl Holt Copy Share Image
“Hero,” he said softly, in a manner that was much like his father’s. “Vengeance and glory are the ways of the Greeks and the… — Sulari Gentill Copy Share Image
“But you were the one who really taught him healing," Achilles said. "I was." "You do not mind that the snake gets all the… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Briseis is kneeling by my body. She has brought water and cloth, and washes the blood and dirt from my skin. Her hands are… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“I would like to say that all the while I waited to break out, but the truth is, I'm afraid I might have floated… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“I gaped at the cold shock of his beauty, deep-green eyes, features fine as a girl's. It struck from me a sudden, springing dislike.… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
There comes a point where certain things are becoming my Achilles heel; you know when you start repeating yourself and saying the same anecdotes… — Karen Elson Copy Share Image
To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of… — Dwight Longenecker Copy Share Image
And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Briseis is kneeling by my body. She has brought water and cloth, and washes the blood and dirt from my skin. Her hands are… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard oftheir… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Personal integrity in Achilles achieves the form and authority of immanent divinity, with its inviolable, lonely singleness, half repellent because of its almost inhuman… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
As the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe has presciently pointed out, neoliberal corporate globalism threatens to exploit that advantage like never before, and it seems… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
