630 Quotes by Madeline Miller

She was a goddess of torment and understood the eloquence of violence.

Os encomiendo una misión para después de mi muerte: mezclar nuestras cenizas y enterrarnos juntos.

Se ausentaba a la última hora de la noche o a primera hora de la mañana, cuando todos dormían en palacio, y regresaba con las mejillas enrojecidas y oliendo a mar.

W otchłani dwa cienie przedzierają się po omacku przez gęsty, dławiący mrok. Ich ręce odnajdują się i światło spływa potokiem jak sto złotych urn, z których sypie się słońce.

The heavy knowledge: my father is dead. He would wake up with that thought for a long time, I knew.

I did not lie dreaming of him during the days, I did not speak his name into my pillow. He was no husband, scarcely even a friend. He was a poison snake, and I was another, and on such terms we pleased ourselves.

You are wise,’ he said. ‘If it is so,’ I said, ’it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes.

It was so simple. If you want it, I will do it. If it would make you happy, I will go with you. Is there a moment that a heart cracks?

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 earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.