630 Quotes by Madeline Miller

Why should he be peaceful? I never was, nor his father either, when I knew him. The difference was that he was not afraid to be burnt.

I believed that she would rather set the world on fire than lose.

I remembered what Odysseus had said about her once. That she never went astray, never made an error. I had been jealous then. Now I thought: what a burden. What an ugly weight upon your back.

But there was no wound she could give me that I had not already given myself.

Is it not our human tragedy that some men must be beaten like donkeys before they will see reason?

Water still streamed from his hair, and I watched it bead, tracing across his arms and the lines of his chest.

Bold action and bold manner are not the same.

I asked her how she did it once, how she understood the world so clearly. She told me that it was a matter of keeping very still and showing no emotions, leaving room for others to reveal themselves.

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. “No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.