Madeline Miller Quotes

It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness.

I had been old and stern and strong. I had carried fears like stones in my chest.

When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist.

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

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind.

Do not let what you want make you forget what you have.

Timidity creates nothing.

That is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet.

Men's hearts are stubborn things, and what they do not want to believe, they will not.

This is how mortals found fame, I thought. Through practice and diligence, tending their skills like gardens until they grew bright and screaming.

Tell yourself a different story, and you start to become a different person.

Glory, like beauty, fades.