630 Quotes by Madeline Miller


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    Seit Hunderten von Generationen war ich nun schon auf der Erde – und war doch immer noch ein Kind.

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    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.

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    My consolation is that we will be together in the underworld. That we will meet again there, if not in this life. I would not wish to be there without her.

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    I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.

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    Who was he to be so patient, while I spilled my blood? I was a woman grown. I was a goddess, and his elder by a thousand generations. I did not need his pity, his attention, anything. “Well?” I would demand. “Why don’t you say something?” “I am listening,” he would answer. “You see?” I said, when I was finished with the tale. “Gods are ugly things.” “We are not our blood,” he answered. “A witch once told me that.

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