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I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came ...
MADELINE MILLER

Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, ...
MADELINE MILLER

Name one hero who was happy."
I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lo...
MADELINE MILLER

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.
MADELINE MILLER

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

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more ...
MADELINE MILLER

This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old.
MADELINE MILLER

The heat rose up my neck, wrapped fingers over my face. His hair fell around me, and I could smell n...
MADELINE MILLER

The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could hav...
MADELINE MILLER

We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.
MADELINE MILLER

Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day tha...
MADELINE MILLER

Peleus acknowledged this. "Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will...
MADELINE MILLER

He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight.
MADELINE MILLER

This is how I think of us, when I remember our nights at Troy: Achilles and I beside each other, Pho...
MADELINE MILLER

I think: this is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: how lon...
MADELINE MILLER

The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last fare...
MADELINE MILLER

That is — your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.
MADELINE MILLER

I conjure the boy I knew. Achilles, grinning as the figs blur in his hands. His green eyes laughing ...
MADELINE MILLER

I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she ...
MADELINE MILLER

Her mouth was a gash of red, like the torn-open stomach of a sacrifice, bloody and oracular. Behind ...
MADELINE MILLER

She wants you to be a god," I told him.
"I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in s...
MADELINE MILLER

This, I say. This and this. The way his hair looked in summer sun. His face when he ran. His eyes, s...
MADELINE MILLER

Bring him back to me,' he told them.
MADELINE MILLER

I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he ...
MADELINE MILLER

I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my...
MADELINE MILLER

I will go,” he said. “I will go to Troy.”
The rosy gleam of his lip, the fevered green of...
MADELINE MILLER

Name one hero who was happy.
MADELINE MILLER

I am made of memories.
MADELINE MILLER

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more ...
MADELINE MILLER

I feel like I could eat the world raw.
MADELINE MILLER

He smiled, and his face was like the sun.
MADELINE MILLER

Achilles was looking at me. “Your hair never quite lies flat, here.” He touched my head, just be...
MADELINE MILLER

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will no...
MADELINE MILLER

There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.
MADELINE MILLER

I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
If I had had wo...
MADELINE MILLER

We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else...
MADELINE MILLER

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

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light...
MADELINE MILLER

It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in h...
MADELINE MILLER

You can use a spear for a walking stick, but it will not change its nature.
MADELINE MILLER

I would still be with you. But I could sleep outside, so it would not be so obvious. I do not need t...
MADELINE MILLER

He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which li...
MADELINE MILLER

There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, toni...
MADELINE MILLER

There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater g...
MADELINE MILLER

It is right to seek peace for the dead. You and I both know there is no peace for those who live aft...
MADELINE MILLER

The sorrow was so large it threatened to tear through my skin. When he died, all things swift and be...
MADELINE MILLER

Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I wou...
MADELINE MILLER

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

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

What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another. We cannot say who will survive the holocau...
MADELINE MILLER

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

The door snicked shut.
MADELINE MILLER

You make the rarest canvas, love
MADELINE MILLER

Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, a...
MADELINE MILLER Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
MADELINE ZIMA I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you h...
MADELINE ZIMA I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone awa...
MADELINE ZIMA My sisters are my best friends and my most staunch supporters. They're always there to help me t...
MADELINE ZIMA When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourse...
MADELINE ZIMA It would be nice to not have to prove myself and for people to know that I'm good and can play a...
MADELINE ZIMA I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of bein...
MADELINE ZIMA Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role...
MADELINE ZIMA I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but ...
MADELINE ZIMA If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines...
MADELINE ZIMA It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not...
MADELINE ZIMA I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... goi...
MADELINE ZIMA My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various r...
MADELINE KAHN In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.
MADELINE KAHN Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do...
MADELINE KAHN From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find...
MADELINE KAHN Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always jo...
MADELINE KAHN Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
MADELINE KAHN

Give the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you.
MADELINE BRIDGES GIRL, write YOUR book dammit.
Who cares what people think?
If writers in the past cared wh...
MADELINE SHEEHAN I grew up with a lot of people who are famous now. I was friends with Hilary and Haley Duff. They ar...
MADELINE ZIMA I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it...
MADELINE KAHN

Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.
MADELINE KUHN

Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you.
MADELINE BRIDGES Let Christmas not become a thing Merely of merchant's trafficking, Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath ...
MADELINE MORSE The Role of the United States in World Affairs.
MADELINE ALBRIGHT Hussein has... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT This is the irrational season Where love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason ...
MADELINE L'ENGLE

Give love, and love to your life will flow.
MADELINE BRIDGES That visit will allow for further discussions on regional security issues and other matters of mutua...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT Over the next few days, ... I will be explaining the American position to leaders in the countries I...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT There is nothing inevitable about the tensions between our two countries or on the Korean peninsula ...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT will not make a decision on sending U.S. troops until we have an agreement in hand and can evaluate ...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT It was an important meeting. It was very important to have it, but we still have a lot more work to ...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT We do have a credible force in the region and are prepared to use it in an appropriate way at a time...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT we cannot give in to terror.
MADELINE ALBRIGHT We want to avoid anything that looks like there is a partition,
MADELINE ALBRIGHT They don't have many issues left, but they cannot predict an agreement will be made by (Friday) morn...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing ...
ARTHUR MILLER

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night ...
HENRY MILLER

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of ne...
HENRY MILLER If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.
LAUREN MILLER I'm a workaholic, and a lot of girls don't know how to deal with a workaholic.
ROMEO MILLER I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have noth...
VON MILLER

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
HENRY MILLER For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has bee...
ZELL MILLER There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George ...
ZELL MILLER Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
ZELL MILLER John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.
ZELL MILLER Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Cam...
ZELL MILLER I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyr...
ZELL MILLER My family is more important than my party.
ZELL MILLER Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray h...
ZELL MILLER

I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I...
WENTWORTH MILLER Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
JACK MILLER When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, ...
JACK MILLER

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need...
ARTHUR MILLER

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat ...
ARTHUR MILLER The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
GEORGE MILLER

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, aw...
HENRY MILLER

One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of...
OLIN MILLER

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
OLIN MILLER

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
OLIN MILLER

A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
OLIN MILLER

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
OLIN MILLER

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
OLIN MILLER

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other ...
OLIN MILLER

If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser toda...
OLIN MILLER

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle...
OLIN MILLER 'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It wa...
PATINA MILLER Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
PATINA MILLER I went to Carnegie Mellon.
PATINA MILLER When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
PATINA MILLER I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
PATINA MILLER That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and th...
PATINA MILLER I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afrai...
PATINA MILLER I got into hula hooping at age six - I hula hooped all day, every day. That was something I was comf...
PATINA MILLER It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in ...
PATINA MILLER I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
PATINA MILLER I've always wanted a Maltese-poodle, but I've always been really busy. So I said once I'...
PATINA MILLER All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartende...
PATINA MILLER

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
HUGH MILLER It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services.....
LAURA MILLER From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who...
LAURA MILLER But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our busines...
LAURA MILLER

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

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