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“A surety rose in me, lodged in my throat. I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.” (The Song of Achilles Quotes)
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“Afterwards, when Agamemnon would ask him when he would confront the prince of Troy, he would smile his most guileless, maddening smile. “What has Hector ever done to me?”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
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
“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
“Divine blood flows differently in each god-born child.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“Fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“I am made of memories.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“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.” (The Song of Achilles Quotes)
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion’s tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”
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
“If every soldier killed only those who’d personally offended him, we’d have no wars at all. Though maybe it’s not such a bad idea.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“In grief, men must help each other, though they are enemies.”
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
“It is right to seek peace for the dead. You and I both know there is no peace for those who live after.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“It was a strange war. No territory was gained, no prisoners were taken. It was for honor only, man against man.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright were they dull.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“My life is my reputation. It is all I have. I will not live much longer. Memory is all I can hope for.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“Our men liked conquest; they did not trust a man who was conquered himself.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“Our world was one of blood, and the honor it won; only cowards did not fight. For a prince there was no choice. You warred and won, or warred and died.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“Success in such a war as this comes only through men sewn to a single purpose, funneled to a single spear thrust rather than a thousand needle-pricks.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“There are many ways to start a war. I always think raiding makes a good beginning. It accomplishes almost the same thing as diplomacy, but with greater profit.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“There is no honour in betraying your friends.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“There is no law that gods must be fair.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, tonight and tomorrow and all the days after that. He let go of my hand.” (The Song of Achilles Quotes)
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“There was nothing clever to say, so I said something foolish.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“There was nothing in the world I wanted more than to know what he had not said.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“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
“We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“We obey our kings, but only within reason.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.” (The Song of Achilles Quotes)
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“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
“Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another. We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory… We are men only, a brief flare of the torch.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“What is more heroic than to fight for the honor of the most beautiful woman in the world, against the mightiest city of the East?”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“When he speaks at last, his voice is weary, and defeated. He doesn’t know how to be angry with me, either. We are like damp wood that won’t light.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
“You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
