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#1

“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

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#2

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: quotes

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#3

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

tags: inspirational, love

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#4

“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

tags: love

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#5

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#6

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#7

“There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#8

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

tags: heroes

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#9

“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#10

“I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#11

“You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: destiny, nature-vs-nurture

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#12

“I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#13

“Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: achilles, gaze-connected, patrochilles, patroclus

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#14

“There is no honour in betraying your friends.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: advice, betrayal, friendship, morality

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#15

“. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#16

“We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: achilles, patroclus, tragedy

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#17

“And perhaps you should get some new stories, so I don’t fucking kill myself of boredom.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#18

“Pride became us—heroes were never modest.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#19

“The never-ending ache of love and sorrow.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: historical-fiction

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#20

“Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: reputation, wealth

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#21

“Strange that such a small kindness felt like grace.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#22

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars

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#23

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#24

“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.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#25

“It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#26

“I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#27

“You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#28

“Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#29

“That is one thing gods and mortals share. When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#30

“The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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