Grey > Grey's Quotes

“Your loss," Odysseus called after him. "Don't mind him. His wife's a hellhound bitch, and that would sour anyone's temper. Now, my wife-----"
"I swear." Diomedes' voice carried back up the length of the ship. "If you finish that sentence, I will throw you over the side and you can swim to Troy.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“But I was ... someone! I was someone else. I was this person -I was James Barnes -I had a life and a country and a family! And you took that from me.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Winter Soldier: Cold Front

“I want you the way stars burn.”
― Abigail Owen, The Games Gods Play

“What if I hadn’t tried to reach for more than this world was willing to offer me…?”
― Abigail Owen, The Games Gods Play

“I want you in the way a storm gathers over mountains only to give in to violent release.”
― Abigail Owen, The Games Gods Play

“But can anyone ever “get over” wanting to be loved—but being cursed to never be loved in return?”
― Abigail Owen, The Games Gods Play

“Seems to me that love can calm storms, end wars, make fools of smart people, and bridge the gap between life and death.”
― Abigail Owen, The Games Gods Play

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S.
"Go," she says. "He waits for you."

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Name one hero who was happy.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“As for the goddess’s answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He collects my ashes himself, though this is a women's duty. He puts them in a golden urn, the finest in our camp, and turns to the watching Greeks.
'When I am dead, I charged you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He is tired of surviving. He wants to live.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Winter Soldier: Cold Front

“Was it worth it? You took my life and my past and my family and my country and my mind. Look me in the eyes and tell me you're proud of yourself.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Winter Soldier: Cold Front

“But then again, did a hero's death really matter if you died just the same? The only difference between a foxhole and a grave was the name you gave it in your won head.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Winter Soldier: Cold Front

“A simple kiss between a rag doll and a Pumpkin King. And perhaps the beginning of their most amazing adventure yet. Not in another world far away this time, but right here, right now, just the two of them, silhouetted in the moonlight on top of Spiral Hill.
As if it was simply meant to be.”
― Mari Mancusi, Sally's Lament

“If you want people to believe in you, you have to know your own worth.”
― Mari Mancusi, Sally's Lament

“All those times she'd watched him waltz into town on Halloween night in all his pumpkin glory--- she'd always been so impressed. He'd been like a rock star to her, larger than life.
But he was also just a simple guy, it turned out. With hopes and dreams and desires, just like everyone else.
And she liked that Jack. Maybe even more than the illustrious Pumpkin King.”
― Mari Mancusi, Sally's Lament

“...stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Maybe it's better to have gotten it right and been happy for one day instead of living a lifetime of wrongs.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. Some you’ll discover you should put behind you. Others are worth every risk.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“I wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Sometimes the truth is a secret you're keeping from yourself because living a lie is easier.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Two dudes met. They fell in love. They lived. That's our story.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“There has to be more to life than just imagining a future for yourself. I can't just wish for the future; I have to take risks to create it.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End