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The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller (Goodreads Author)

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(page 170 of 408)
"I learned to sleep through the day so that I would not be tired
when he returned; he always needed to talk then, to tell me down to the last
detail about the faces and the wounds and the movements of men. And I
wanted to be able to listen, to digest the bloody images, to paint them flat
and unremarkable onto the vase of posterity. To release him from it and
make him Achilles again." — Mar 18, 2026 10:17AM

Mar 07, 2026 02:26AM

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“When a monster sees something else monstruous, he only thinks it pretty.”
― C.G. Drews, You Did Nothing Wrong

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“There are thousands of gods that open thousands of doors to anyone who knocks. It’s about deciding which doors you want to open.”
― Kylie Lee Baker, Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

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“I loved you by then, or would soon, or always had. It was inevitable, foretold: When I look up, I will see the sky; when I fight, I will win; when I meet Owen Mallory, I will love him.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

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“You know that history is mostly happenstance. Accidents piled on top of mistakes, a series of dice rolled in dim rooms by careless hands. It is not a lesson, until we learn it. It is not a story, until we tell it. And every story serves someone.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

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“I thought, despairingly, that love didn’t make cowards of us, after all; it made heroes, and heroes usually didn’t survive.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

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