630 Quotes by Madeline Miller

You can use a spear for a walking stick, but it will not change its nature.

We are men only, a brief flare of the torch. Those to come may raise us or lower us as they please.

Imagine such a happiness. Like drinking wine your whole life, instead of water.

She moved like a wave herself, graceful, but with relentless, driving motion.

I did not plan to live after he was gone.

I had no altar, but I did not need one: anywhere I was became my temple.

Our dead came for their vengeance regardless of witnesses.

I did not see the worst of him. Even at his best he was not an easy man. But he was a friend to me in a time when I needed one.” “It is strange to think of a goddess needing friends.” “All creatures that are not mad need them.

With every step I felt lighter. An emotion was swelling in my throat. It took me a moment to recognize what it was. I had been old and stern for so long, carved with regrets and years like a monolith. But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it.