630 Quotes by Madeline Miller

I heard you were here.” A clear voice like ice-melted streams.

When there is rot in the walls, there is only one remedy.” The purple bruise at my throat was turning green at its edges. I pressed it, felt the splintered ache. Tear down, I thought. Tear down and build again.

I looked at her, as vivid in my doorway as the moon in the autumn sky. Her eyes held mine, gray and steady. It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment’s carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.

Patroclus,″ Achilles tilted his face up with a gentle finger under his chin. ″I would recognise you in total darkness, were you mute and I deaf. I would recognise you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times. And I would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion″.

This is the grief that makes our kind choose to be stones and trees rather than flesh.

Maybe her gods are kinder than ours, and she will find rest. I would give my life again to make it so.

Odysseus drew the world to him,” she said. “Telegonus runs after, shaping as he goes, like a river carving a channel.

He would patch their ships and I would cast charms against biting flies and fevers and we would take pleasure in the simple mending of the world.

I am made of memories.