"I would still be with you. But I……" — Madeline Miller
"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 councils. I—' 'No. The Phthians will not care. And the others can talk all they like. I will still be Aristos Achaion.' Best of the Greeks. 'Your honor could be darkened by it." 'Then it is darkened.' His jaw shot forward, stubborn. 'They are fools if they let my glory rise or fall on this."
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Madeline Miller
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25 Quotes by Madeline Miller
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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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