"and when he moved it was like watching……" — Madeline Miller
"and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious"
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Madeline Miller
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25 Quotes by Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller has 25 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others…
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When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had…
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I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came…
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I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until…
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I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. If I…
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I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them.…
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
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As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of…
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
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Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the…
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
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