Quotes by Madeline Miller

About Madeline Miller:

Madeline Miller is an American novelist, whose debut novel was The Song of Achilles. Miller spent ten years writing the book while she worked as a Latin and Greek teacher. The novel, set in Greece, tells the story of the love between Achilles and Patroclus. The Song of Achilles won the Orange Prize for Fiction, making Miller the fourth debut novelist to win the prize.
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There is no honour in betraying your friends.

Madeline Miller

I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S. "Go," she says. "He waits for you." In the darkness, two shadows, ...

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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.

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Indeed, he seemed utterly unaware of his effect on the boys around him.

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Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from." "But what if he is your friend?" Achilles has asked him, feet kicked up on the wall of the rose-quartz cave. "O...

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

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

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

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Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.

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When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.

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

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Her mouth was a gash of red, like the torn-open stomach of a sacrifice, bloody and oracular. Behind it her teeth shone sharp and white as bone.

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Name one hero who was happy." I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' ...

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Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But 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." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust...

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She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

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Name one hero who was happy.

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There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?

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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.

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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.

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Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

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Author Bio

  • NameMadeline Miller
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJuly 24, 1978
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Teacher; Novelist