Song Of Achilles Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

Pearl S. Buck

#3. We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.

Madeline Miller

#4. If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.

Charles J. Shields

#5. She [Cressida] knows it is men's sexual desire that makes women "angels" before they have been able to possess them; once possessed, women are "things" [Troilus and Cressida I.2, 225-28, 233-34].

Tina Packer

#6. Wendy came first, then John, then Michael.

J.M. Barrie

#7. 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.

Madeline Miller

#8. An ugly man, with a face sharp like a weasel and a habit of running a flickering tongue over his lips before he speaks. But most ugly of all are his eyes: blue, bright blue. When people see them, they flinch. Such things are freakish. He is lucky he was not killed at birth.

Madeline Miller

#9. This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector

Madeline Miller

#10. Candide listened attentively and believed innocently; for he thought Miss Cunegonde extremely beautiful, though he never had the courage to tell her so.

Voltaire

#11. I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#12. He did not fear ridicule, he had never known it.

Madeline Miller

#13. Hammer the lies! Nail the truth." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

Angelica Hopes

#14. I realized how love could insulate a person from just about anything. Especially self-love.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#15. A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.

Tod Machover

#16. Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know is in dark or disguise, told myself. I would know it even in madness.

Madeline Miller

#17. 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.

Madeline Miller

#18. The rosy gleam of his lip, the fevered gleam of his eyes. There was not a line anywhere on his face, nothing creased or graying; all crisp. He was spring, golden and bright. Envious death would drink his blood, and grow young again.

Madeline Miller

#19. What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

Thomas Browne

#20. One of the keys for being a positive influence on other people is to keep your complaints and negativity in your head and out of your mouth.

Tom Cunningham

#21. My father was an army champion boxer ... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.

Hugh Jackman

#22. Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high.

Tom Brokaw

#23. We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.

Madeline Miller