630 Quotes by Madeline Miller

It is done. I will think of them no more. I cast them out and I am finished.

Come, make us into magic.

You can teach a viper to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite.

Then he would leave for the underworld, where I could never go, for gods are the opposite of death. I tried to imagine those dusky hills and gray meadows, the shades moving slow and white among them. Some walked hand in hand with those they had loved in life; some waited, secure that one day their beloved would come. And for those who had not loved, whose lives had been filled with pain and horror, there was the black river Lethe, where one might drink and forget. Some consolation.

Pride became us – heroes were never modest.

He was another knife I could feel it. A different sort, but a knife still. I did not care. I thought: give me the blade. Some things are worth spilling blood for.

This, and this and this. We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

At least, I thought in those early days, once I cast a spell, I would not have to learn it again. But even that was not true. However often I had used an herb before, each cutting had its own character. One rose would give up its secrets if it were ground, another must be pressed, a third steeped. Each spell was a montain to be climbed anew. All I could carry with me from last time was the knowedge that it could be done.

I cannot account for the fact that she married me, but since it is to my benefit, I try not to bring it to her attention.