Celina > Celina's Quotes

“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
― Simone Weil

“I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I think: this is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: how long do we have?”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright were they dull.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I had known contentment before, brief snatches of time in which I pursued solitary pleasure: skipping stones or dicing or dreaming. But in truth, it had been less a presence than an absence, a laying aside of dread:”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Later Achilles would play the lyre, as Chiron and I listened. My mother's lyre. He had brought it with him.
'I wish I had known,' I said, the first day when he showed it to me. 'I almost did not come, because I did not want to believe it.'
He smiled. 'Now I know how to make you follow me everywhere.”
― Madeline Miller

“How could he be so foolish? The angry words pricked in my mouth.
But when I tried to speak them, I found I could not. His cheeks were flushed with shame, and the skin beneath his eyes was weary. His trust was a part of him, as much as his hands or his miraculous feet. And despite my hurt, I would not wish to see it gone, to see him as uneasy and fearful as the rest of us, for any price.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“His father liked to keep his eyes closed. Icarus needed to keep his eyes open to stay tethered to faith.”
― K. Ancrum, Icarus

“I recalled that rainy day when I'd rescued Chobi-or so I'd arrogantly believed at the time. Actually, I was the one who'd been rescued.”
― Makoto Shinkai, Naruki Nagakawa, She and Her Cat: Stories

“The idea that worlds could change my world was a little scary.”
― Makoto Shinkai, Naruki Nagakawa

“I'm not going to die. I'm going to become eternity.” “Eternity?” Kuro and Chobi both looked doubtful. “If I died here, then both of you, and Shino, would know that I was dead. But if you don't see me die, then nobody will know for sure whether I'm dead or not.”
― Makoto Shinkai, Naruki Nagakawa

“Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“It’s true, you know. In space, no one can hear you scream like a little girl.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Even my sorrow about my insignificance feels insignificant.”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than somewhere you had to be left.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“Leah always used to say that I was kind, but I've never felt at all convinced of that. You're interested in people, she would say, you like to hear about their siblings, and I would tell her I wasn't sure that was the same as being kind to them.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“Would you look after me, I found myself wanting to ask and unable to do so, the request tangling back on itself, coming out as would you pass the gravy, would you change the channel, would you look at this. For a long time, it failed to occur to me that I was not, in fact, the only person this could happen to.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“There was no sense of haunting, to be honest, only ongoingness, until one day he ceased to appear and I really felt fine about that too.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“In truth, we will only perform any action a certain number of times, and to know that can never be helpful. There is, in my opinion, no use in demanding to know the number, in demanding to know upon waking the number of boxes to be ticked off every single day. After all, why would it help to be shown the mathematics of things, when instead we could simply imagine that whatever time we have is limitless.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“Now walk away and tell Coach to mind his pay grade. I will not let him get away with this a second time.”
― Nora Sakavic, The King's Men