630 Quotes by Madeline Miller
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Rage and grief, thwarted desire, lust, self-pity: these are emotions gods know well. But guilt and shame, remorse, ambivalence, those are foreign countries to our kind, which must be learned stone by stone.
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Sweet son,” I said “you are right, this world is a wild and terrible place, and worth shouting at. But you are safe now, and all of us need to sleep. Will you let us have a little peace?
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Everything was united by the steady rise and fall of nature’s breath. Everything except for me.
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The air had a stinging weight like ocean waves. I felt myself a stranger to the world.
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In those days, my mother was in an especial ill humor. My father had begun to prefer his draughts to her, and her venom over it fell to me.
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There was nothing in the world I wanted more than to know what he had not said.
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Achilles makes a sound like choking. “There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.” His spearpoint flies in a dark whirlwind, bright as the evening-star, to catch the hollow at Hector’s throat.
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Beneath my feet were the bones of a thousand years. I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.
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She was a poisoner at heart; she wanted to be sure I came as villain, not savior.
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