630 Quotes by Madeline Miller

I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.

Have you no memories?'I am made of memories.'Then speak.

As for the goddess’s answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone.

They do not care if you are good. They barely care if you are wicked. The only thing that makes them listen is power.

He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.

Daedalus did not long outlive his son. His limbs turned grey, and all his strength was transmuted into smoke. I had no right to claim him, I knew it. But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation he was to me.

His words were simple. They had no art to them, which of course was also art.

Circe, he says, it will be all right.It is not the saying of an oracle or a prophet. ... He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what is means to be alive.

You cannot guess what spells I have cast, what poisons I have gathered to protect myself against you, how your power may rebound upon your head. Who knows that is in me? Will you find out?