Quotes from Madeline Miller

I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop of heartsblood lost.

I came to see that Penelope was twice as clever as her cousins and just as beautiful. So—" "As beautiful as Helen?" Diomedes interrupted. "Is that why she was twenty and unmarried?

La estupidez del ser humano me hace gracia.

His rage was so hot the air bent and wavered around him. "I can end you with a thought." It was my oldest fear, that white annihilation. I felt it shiver through me. But enough. At last, enough.

I did not think-'' He could not say it, could not put all his hopes into the proper words. I did not think you could love me. I did not think I could be enough for you to stay. You are the earth, the sky, the sun and the stars and I cannot fathom all that you are, all that you mean to me.

Tampoco él sabía enfadarse conmigo. Éramos como un bosque mojado en el que no prendía el fuego.

I thought of telling him about the quarrel with Pasiphaë, but I did not want her there with us.

Nunca te dejan ser famoso y feliz. Voy a contarte un secreto. - Dime - Yo voy a ser el primero. Júralo. - ¿Por qué yo? - Porque tu eres la razón.

I can be best for you," I said. "I can please you, I swear it. You will find none more loyal than me. I will do anything.

At least, I told myself, it was not their brothers, who would have bragged and fought and hunted down my wolves. But of course that was never a real danger. Songs were not punished.

That does not mean I must run to help the sons of Atreus every time they lose their wives.

On their faces, disappointment braided with relief.

Comme dit le poète, Achille est la moitié de mon âme.

Zawistna ?mier? mia?a wyssa? z niego krew i sta? si? znów m?oda.

The islands looked all the same to me--high cliffs bleached white, pebbled beaches that scratched the underside of our ships with their chalky fingernails.

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.

We are all made of memories

Era un experto consumado en lo tocante al dolor. Nada podía causar más dolor a Aquiles que aquello: el hombre más próximo a su corazón le traicionaba ante su peor enemigo.

His eyes opened. 'Name one hero who was happy

Dormido bajo aquella luminosidad tan tenue parecía diferente: hermoso pero frío. Me descubrí deseando que despertara para de ese modo poder contemplar cómo revivía.

I loved his certainty, his world that was an easy place of right action divided sharply from wrong, of mistake and consequence, of monsters defeated. It was no world I knew, but I would live in it as long as he would let me" - circe, chapter XIX

Estoy hecho de recuerdos I am made of memories

I know it's not popular to say. I know everybody's looking for some sexy marriage nowadays. But I was really happy with your father. I really loved having someone look out for me, having someone to look out for. Having someone to share my days with.

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth while another is gone.