Madeline Miller quote: "This is how I think of us, when I remember our nights at Troy: Achilles and I beside each other, Phoinix smiling and Automedon stuttering through the punch lines of jokes, and Briseis with her secret eyes and quick, spilling laughter."

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came ...
MADELINE MILLER

Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, ...
MADELINE MILLER

Name one hero who was happy."
I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lo...
MADELINE MILLER

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

Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.
MADELINE MILLER

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more ...
MADELINE MILLER

This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old.
MADELINE MILLER

The heat rose up my neck, wrapped fingers over my face. His hair fell around me, and I could smell n...
MADELINE MILLER

The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could hav...
MADELINE MILLER

We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.
MADELINE MILLER

Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day tha...
MADELINE MILLER

Peleus acknowledged this. "Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will...
MADELINE MILLER

He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight.
MADELINE MILLER

I think: this is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: how lon...
MADELINE MILLER

The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last fare...
MADELINE MILLER

That is — your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.
MADELINE MILLER

I conjure the boy I knew. Achilles, grinning as the figs blur in his hands. His green eyes laughing ...
MADELINE MILLER

We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.
MADELINE MILLER

I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she ...
MADELINE MILLER

Her mouth was a gash of red, like the torn-open stomach of a sacrifice, bloody and oracular. Behind ...
MADELINE MILLER

She wants you to be a god," I told him.
"I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in s...
MADELINE MILLER

This, I say. This and this. The way his hair looked in summer sun. His face when he ran. His eyes, s...
MADELINE MILLER

Bring him back to me,' he told them.
MADELINE MILLER

I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he ...
MADELINE MILLER

I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my...
MADELINE MILLER

I will go,” he said. “I will go to Troy.”
The rosy gleam of his lip, the fevered green of...
MADELINE MILLER

Name one hero who was happy.
MADELINE MILLER

I am made of memories.
MADELINE MILLER

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more ...
MADELINE MILLER

I feel like I could eat the world raw.
MADELINE MILLER

He smiled, and his face was like the sun.
MADELINE MILLER

Achilles was looking at me. “Your hair never quite lies flat, here.” He touched my head, just be...
MADELINE MILLER

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will no...
MADELINE MILLER

There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.
MADELINE MILLER

I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
If I had had wo...
MADELINE MILLER

We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else...
MADELINE MILLER

When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.
MADELINE MILLER

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light...
MADELINE MILLER

It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in h...
MADELINE MILLER

You can use a spear for a walking stick, but it will not change its nature.
MADELINE MILLER

I would still be with you. But I could sleep outside, so it would not be so obvious. I do not need t...
MADELINE MILLER

He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which li...
MADELINE MILLER

There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, toni...
MADELINE MILLER

There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater g...
MADELINE MILLER

It is right to seek peace for the dead. You and I both know there is no peace for those who live aft...
MADELINE MILLER

The sorrow was so large it threatened to tear through my skin. When he died, all things swift and be...
MADELINE MILLER

Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I wou...
MADELINE MILLER

Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.
MADELINE MILLER

He is half of my soul, as the poets say.
MADELINE MILLER

What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another. We cannot say who will survive the holocau...
MADELINE MILLER

Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.
MADELINE MILLER

The door snicked shut.
MADELINE MILLER

You make the rarest canvas, love
MADELINE MILLER

Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, a...
MADELINE MILLER

Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
MADELINE ZIMA

I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you h...
MADELINE ZIMA

I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone awa...
MADELINE ZIMA

My sisters are my best friends and my most staunch supporters. They're always there to help me t...
MADELINE ZIMA

When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourse...
MADELINE ZIMA

It would be nice to not have to prove myself and for people to know that I'm good and can play a...
MADELINE ZIMA

I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of bein...
MADELINE ZIMA

Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role...
MADELINE ZIMA

I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but ...
MADELINE ZIMA

If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines...
MADELINE ZIMA

It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not...
MADELINE ZIMA

I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... goi...
MADELINE ZIMA

My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various r...
MADELINE KAHN

In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.
MADELINE KAHN

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do...
MADELINE KAHN

From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find...
MADELINE KAHN

Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always jo...
MADELINE KAHN

Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
MADELINE KAHN

Give the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you.
MADELINE BRIDGES

GIRL, write YOUR book dammit.
Who cares what people think?
If writers in the past cared wh...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

I grew up with a lot of people who are famous now. I was friends with Hilary and Haley Duff. They ar...
MADELINE ZIMA

I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it...
MADELINE KAHN

Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.
MADELINE KUHN

Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you.
MADELINE BRIDGES

Let Christmas not become a thing Merely of merchant's trafficking, Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath ...
MADELINE MORSE

The Role of the United States in World Affairs.
MADELINE ALBRIGHT

Hussein has... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT

This is the irrational season Where love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason ...
MADELINE L'ENGLE

Give love, and love to your life will flow.
MADELINE BRIDGES

That visit will allow for further discussions on regional security issues and other matters of mutua...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT

Over the next few days, ... I will be explaining the American position to leaders in the countries I...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT

There is nothing inevitable about the tensions between our two countries or on the Korean peninsula ...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT

will not make a decision on sending U.S. troops until we have an agreement in hand and can evaluate ...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT

The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT

It was an important meeting. It was very important to have it, but we still have a lot more work to ...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT

We do have a credible force in the region and are prepared to use it in an appropriate way at a time...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT

we cannot give in to terror.
MADELINE ALBRIGHT

We want to avoid anything that looks like there is a partition,
MADELINE ALBRIGHT

They don't have many issues left, but they cannot predict an agreement will be made by (Friday) morn...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT

Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable
MADELINE KUHN

Our aim is to show that real Jewish princesses are tough, dynamic and practical.
MADELINE BLACK

My favorite is the one with the train, the California roll and the cucumber roll.
MADELINE DOLINSKY

They are next-door neighbors with a past of conflict and a present of bitter mistrust,
MADELINE ALBRIGHT

Saddam's goal ... is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's w...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT

We want them to go because it's important for Lebanon to be an independent country and not a client ...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT

Unlike the United States and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War, India and Pakistan do not ...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT

Now, when I have guests, I ask, 'Can I get you something? We have water, we have juice, milk, soda, ...
MADELINE DALTON

I've never slept anywhere without being protected by secondary glazing ... and I'm scared of snakes....
MADELINE BLACK

Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.
MADELINE CARROLL

For fuck’s sake, Tegen, stop overthinkin’ every damn thing. Just get on my goddamn dick and star...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

Perspective is a bitch when it slaps you in the face, after the fact
MADELINE SHEEHAN

You scared of your old lady, Ripper?”…
“Fuck you,” he shot back. “I ain’t scared of...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

And sometimes, love is unconventional and it breaks all the rules and blurs all the lines and basks ...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

Cox shrugged. "if that's what it takes to get laid, then I'm a fuckinin'poet. Other times I'm a fuck...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

You respect women, you little fuckin' shit. It was a fuckin' woman who carried you around in her fuc...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

From chaos, the strongest sort of love is usually born.
MADELINE SHEEHAN

Life may not always go the way you'd planned, you may not have the perfect family, you may not be th...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

Where’s you’re fuckin’ bitch?”
Cox looked right then left. “Shit,” he muttered. “...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

It wasn’t easy.
Nothing worth doing ever is.
And love is worth everything.
MADELINE SHEEHAN

Daddy!” Eva whirled around, glaring. “I’ve been fucking Deuce since I was eighteen! I wanted t...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

He looked down at his flaccid cock. "Congratulations," he said. "You've just fucked yourself to deat...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

Love is a feeling, a real, raw, and unscripted emotion so sensationally pure, unable to dull even un...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

She doesn’t belong to one of my boys, she’s fuckin’ mine.
MADELINE SHEEHAN

And babe, when I kissed you and you kissed me back, not knowing that the fuck you were doin’ but d...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

Because baby, I'm wild pussy and wild pussy can't be bought. Wild pussy doesn't like having pretty t...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

Whatever this shit is between us it’s always been there and it’s always gonna be there. I’m sh...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

We’d all lived through our own horrors, and whether they showed on our skin or not, we all bore sc...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

You are ill, correct? The warmth and shivering had no other particular cause, did it?"
<...
MADELINE HUNTER

Pizza is like the entire food pyramid!
MADELINE OLES

All the same, we should excuse ourselves," Vergil said. "Although I am wondering if the meeting was ...
MADELINE HUNTER

Forgive me. It was stupid of me to think you might need company, when clearly all you required was t...
MADELINE HUNTER

Several children were also highly aware of cigarette brands, as illustrated by the 6-year-old boy wh...
MADELINE DALTON

Children's play behaviour suggests that they are highly attentive to the use and enjoyment of alcoho...
MADELINE DALTON

It's very kid-friendly with all the bento boxes and kid toys that they get for kids.
MADELINE DOLINSKY

For the girls they do Hello Kitty and for the boys they do a little train.
MADELINE DOLINSKY

So many people don't know how to approach retirement. The thing is, if you have some plans, you can ...
MADELINE KALOIDES

Sometimes we talk about old times or about the difference between today and yesterday. We talk about...
MADELINE KALOIDES

Older adults receive a considerable number of perks that enhance their lives, but that shouldn't be ...
MADELINE KALOIDES

You just lie on your back, or whatever is comfortable for you, and close your eyes and try to just l...
MADELINE HOPKINS

I'm very tall, and I hit an awkward stage at about 12 that lasted until my mid-20s when I discovered...
MADELINE HOPKINS

It's different from other sports or physical activities in that everybody can be doing something dif...
MADELINE HOPKINS

I saw him in front of Stop & Shop doing what appeared to me as campaigning. He had a large sign on h...
MADELINE SCHMIDT

Retirement funds are the security that you're building up over the course of your working years and ...
MADELINE NOVECK

I have not yet seen any sign of a selling panic. I've had much more pressure on me in the last coupl...
MADELINE NOVECK

I don't know if he has any backup for what he was saying.
MADELINE SCHMIDT

He said he didn't have to, that he was just telling the truth. When I read the literature, I didn't ...
MADELINE SCHMIDT

It's a good mix. I've been very happy and very impressed with the amount of women we've had come out...
MADELINE CASTRO

There is no limit to how many participants can enter. First come, everybody served.
MADELINE CASTRO

It is starting to pour in. People are excited.
MADELINE CASTRO

It will be a competition event.
MADELINE CASTRO

Nancy is passionate about Israel, and was keen to show her support in a hands-on way. The contestant...
MADELINE BLACK

Could just feed 'im to the dogs, Prez," Bucket drawled. "Wouldn't have to feed 'em for a whole fucki...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

[In] NIVO 1, LLC v. Antunez, 217 Cal.App.4th Supp. 1 (2013) The Appellate Division of the Los...
MADELINE HOWARD

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
FREYA MADELINE STARK

Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing
MADELINE DE SCUDERY

A thing is only as great as the amount a person is willing to risk for it. If you are not willing to...
MADELINE CLAIRE FRANKLIN

But memories were fragile and not to be trusted. They were a weight that Faolin did not need to carr...
MADELINE CLAIRE FRANKLIN

The maiden with her wheel of old
Sat by the fire to spin,
While lightly through her carefu...
MADELINE S. BRIDGES

Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other hars...
MADELINE L'ENGLE

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing ...
ARTHUR MILLER

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night ...
HENRY MILLER

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of ne...
HENRY MILLER

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.
LAUREN MILLER

I'm a workaholic, and a lot of girls don't know how to deal with a workaholic.
ROMEO MILLER

I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have noth...
VON MILLER

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
HENRY MILLER

For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has bee...
ZELL MILLER

There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George ...
ZELL MILLER

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
ZELL MILLER

John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.
ZELL MILLER

Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Cam...
ZELL MILLER

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyr...
ZELL MILLER

My family is more important than my party.
ZELL MILLER

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray h...
ZELL MILLER

I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I...
WENTWORTH MILLER

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
JACK MILLER

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, ...
JACK MILLER

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need...
ARTHUR MILLER

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat ...
ARTHUR MILLER

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
GEORGE MILLER

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, aw...
HENRY MILLER

One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of...
OLIN MILLER

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
OLIN MILLER

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
OLIN MILLER

A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
OLIN MILLER

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
OLIN MILLER

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
OLIN MILLER

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other ...
OLIN MILLER

If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser toda...
OLIN MILLER

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle...
OLIN MILLER

'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It wa...
PATINA MILLER

Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
PATINA MILLER

I went to Carnegie Mellon.
PATINA MILLER

When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
PATINA MILLER

I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
PATINA MILLER

That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and th...
PATINA MILLER

I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afrai...
PATINA MILLER

I got into hula hooping at age six - I hula hooped all day, every day. That was something I was comf...
PATINA MILLER

It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in ...
PATINA MILLER

I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
PATINA MILLER

I've always wanted a Maltese-poodle, but I've always been really busy. So I said once I'...
PATINA MILLER

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartende...
PATINA MILLER

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
HUGH MILLER

It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services.....
LAURA MILLER

From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who...
LAURA MILLER

But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our busines...
LAURA MILLER

This is how I think of us, when I remember our nights at Troy: Achilles and I beside each other, Phoinix smiling and Automedon stuttering through the punch lines of jokes, and Briseis with her secret eyes and quick, spilling laughter.

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Madeline Miller

This is how I think of us, when I remember our nights at Troy: Achilles and I beside each other, Phoinix smiling and Automedon stuttering through the punch lines of jokes, and Briseis with her secret eyes and quick, spilling laughter.

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