Quotes by Madeline Miller

Madeline Miller

. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.

Dirty

Eclipse

Mediocrity

A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because his poetry was outstanding, yes, but also because he’s been passed down by so many by luminaries like Vergil and Ovid, Shakespeare, James Joyce and Margaret Atwood, but also by countless others. I wanted to do my part for these tremendous stories.

Different

Generations

Voice

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

Light

Moon

Skins

and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious

Lakes

Oil

Smooth

As an author, one of the most important things I think you can do once you’ve written a novel is step back. When the book is out, it belongs to the readers and you can’t stand there breathing over their shoulders.

Book

Breathing

Thinking

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. “No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

Foolish

Invention

Men

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.

Use

Walking Sticks

Weapons

He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else’s friend and brother. So which life is more important?

Brother

Important

Life Is

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.

Feet

Love

Smell

I feel like I could eat the world raw.

Feels

World

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Air

Book

Breathing

Brother

Character

Cutting

Different

Dirty

Doors

Dull

Earth

Earthquakes

Eclipse

Eyelashes

Fall

Farewell

Feels

Feet

Fighting

Foolish

Generations

Gone

Greek

Grief

Hands

Heart

Home

Hurt

Husband

Important

Invention

Jobs

Joy

Lakes

Law

Leap

Life Is

Light

Love

Mediocrity

Memories

Men

Mind

Moon

Movement

Oil

Parent

People

Rising

Roots

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Quotes by Madeline Miller

Madeline Miller

. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious

As an author, one of the most important things I think you can do once you’ve written a novel is step back. When the book is out, it belongs to the readers and you can’t stand there breathing over their shoulders.

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. “No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

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.

He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else’s friend and brother. So which life is more important?

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.

I feel like I could eat the world raw.

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