Quotes from Madeline Miller

But Machaon saw how well the shoulder healed, with no infection and little pain, and next time there was an arrow wound he called me over and passed me a sharp blade, looking at me expectantly.

King Agamemnon." Achilles stepped forward. His voice was easy, almost amused. "I don't think anyone has forgotten that you are leader of this host. But you do not seem to remember that we are kings in our own right, or princes, or heads of our families. We are allies, not slaves." A few men nodded; more would have liked to.

Her mouth tightens. "Have you no more memories?" I am made of memories. "Speak, then.

Ele pegou minha mão. O gesto era como o de um bardo. Mas não estávamos em um tipo de canção? Esse era o refrão que tínhamos praticado com tanta frequência.

Do you always talk to pigs when I am gone?

But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it

But then he was awake, his lips forming a half-sleepy greeting, and his hand was already reaching for mine. We lay there, like that, until the cave was bright with morning, and Chiron called.

Sotto i rami spogli soffrivamo insieme, io per l'uomo che avevo conosciuto, e lui per l'uomo che non era riuscito a conoscere.

You care more for him in death than in life.

She was taller than I was, taller than any woman I had ever seen. Her black hair was loose down her back, and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?' He smiles. 'Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.

He asked only for curiosity's sake, because it was his nature to seek out answers, to press others for their weaknesses.

I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it." "Why me?" "Because you're the reason. Swear it.

Their hum seemed fainter, their colors faded. I had not considered that perhaps their powers could not survive transplanting.

He smelled like earth after rain.

I had changed since then. I had gained strength and size, and a beard that grew if I did not shave it away. But she was the same. Of course she was.

Yo me había escapado y ahora estaba eufórico, disfrutando de la vertiginosa luz de la soledad. Era la primera vez que estaba solo desde hacía muchas semanas.

But then there are those who wear their destinies like nooses, whose lives run straight as planks, however they try to twist it.

Suspiró con fatiga. —Eres mejor hombre que yo. Eso era el comienzo de una esperanza. Nos habíamos infligido heridas el uno al otro, pero ninguna mortal. […] Habría un después tras todo esto. —No, eso no es cierto. —Me levanté y me dirigí hacia él. Puse una mano sobre su piel tibia—. Hoy te has perdido y luego te has encontrado.

I was a gray space filled up with nothing.

I grew to understand her expressions first, the thoughtful quiet of her eyes,

Le habían confundido, le habían atado a una apuesta y lo acosaban. Le acaricié la piel suave de la frente. Yo le desataría… si me resultaba posible y él me dejaba.

Your words today have caused your own death, and the death of your men. I will fight for you no longer. Without me, your army will fall. Hector will grind you to bones and bloody dust, and I will watch it and laugh. You will come, crying for mercy, but I will give none. They will all die, Agamemnon, for what you have done here.

I did not mind anymore that I lost when we raced and I lost when we swam out to the rocks and I lost when we tossed spears or skipped stones. For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty?