630 Quotes by Madeline Miller
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I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.
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The words slid into me, smooth as a polished knife.
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Imagine such a happiness. Like drinking wine your whole life, instead of water. Like having Achilles to run your errands.
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Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free. His ashes settle among mine, and I feel nothing.
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The sorrow was so large it threatened to tear through my skin. When he died, all things swift and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.
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Good. I wanted him angry. He would make mistakes that way.
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A happy man is too occupied with his life. He thinks he is beholden to no one. But make him shiver, kill his wife, cripple his child, then you will hear from him. He will starve his family for a month to buy you a pure-white yearling calf. If he can afford it, he will buy you a hundred.
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I waited beside my son, but he scarcely knew it. His eyes had found the horizon, that seam of waves and sky.
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Perhaps she thought I hated her. She did not know that I almost asked him, a hundred times, to be a little kinder to her. You do not have to humiliate her so thoroughly, I thought. But it was not kindness he lacked; it was interest.
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