Quotes from Madeline Miller

I'm sure you're right. After all, Hector hasn't done anything to you." He smiled then, as I had hoped he would. "Yes," he said. "I've heard that.

He is offended, it seems, so the omens say, at the treatment of his dedicated servant. Chryses." Agamemnon's shoulders were rigid.

Envious death would drink his blood and grow young again

Había contemplado la muerte en pinturas y en los tapices, y también en las figuras negras de las hidrias, pero jamás había visto la vibración del estertor, el ahogo, la desesperación. El olor a sangre.

El miedo era como una copa de pánico cuyo contenido se agitaba en mi interior, amenazando con verterse de un momento a otro.

And their masts stood as tall as the trees they had been

You have eked out ten more years of life, and I am glad for you. But the rest of us -" His mouth twists. "The rest of us are forced to wait for your leisure. You are holding us here, Achilles.

For like Phoinix I am declared already, decided. I am no longer to guide the course, merely to be carried into darkness and beyond, with only Achilles' hands at the helm.

Il peggio della mia codardia era stato smaltito, lasciando il posto a una frastornante esaltazione. Non me ne starò come un uccello in gabbia, pensai, troppo stordito per volare via anche con la porta aperta. Entrai in quel bosco e la mia vita ebbe inizio.

But in a solitary life, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.

Quise despertarle para verle abrir los párpados, un espectáculo del que nunca me cansaba a pesar de haberlo visto miles de veces.

Quella parola, "ninfa", misurava l'estensione e l'ampiezza del nostro futuro. Nella nostra lingua significava non solo "dea", ma "sposa".

A mio padre non è mai riuscito di immaginare il mondo privo della sua presenza.

Impiegai un momento a capire. Non l'avrei mai fatto così sfrontato. Ma era naturale che lo fosse. Artista, creatore, inventore, il più grande che il mondo avesse mai conosciuto. La timidezza non crea nulla.

My eyes were heavy in my head, and my arm ached from the morning'e exertion. I sat beneath the scrubby shade of an olive tree to stare out over the ocean's waves. No one spoke to me. I was easy to ignore. It was not so very different from home, really.

Byli?my jak bogowie u zarania ?wiata, a nasza rado?? by?a tak promienna, ?e nie widzieli?my niczego poza sob? nawzajem.

pero los recuerdos estaban hechos de aire, y sus rastros se habian borrado.

It will be all right. He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. 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.

This was no slouchy prince of wine halls and debauchery, as Easterners were said to be.

Patroclus." Achilles did not slur my name, as people often did, running it together as if in a hurry to be rid of it. Instead, he rang each syllable: Pa-tro-clus.

Achilles' miracle was his speed. His spear, as he began the first pass, moved faster than my eye could follow. It whirled, flashing forward, reversed, then flashed behind. The shaft seemed to flow in his hands, the dark gray point flickered like a snake's tongue. His feet beat the ground like a dancer, never still.

After that, I was craftier with my observation, kept my head down and my eyes ready to leap away. But he was craftier still. At least once a dinner he would turn and catch me before I could feign indifference. Those seconds, half-seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all. The sudden swoop of my sotmach, the coursing anger. I was like a fish eyeing the hook.

No tengo otro recuerdo de mi madre y es tan perfecto que estoy casi convencido de que es fruto de mi imaginación.

Cite um herói que tenha sido feliz. Não conseguiria. — Não, não conseguiria. — Sei disso. Os deuses não permitem que sejamos famosos e felizes. Vou lhe contar um segredo. — Conte-me. — Eu serei o primeiro. Jure. — Por que eu devo jurar? — Porque você é a razão.