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Madeline Miller è una scrittrice statunitense, vincitrice dell'Orange Prize per il suo libro La canzone di Achille. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Luglio 1978  •  Altri nomi مدلین میلر
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“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”

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Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”

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Origine: The Song of Achilles

“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.”

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“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”

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Origine: The Song of Achilles

“Name one hero who was happy.”

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Origine: The Song of Achilles

“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”

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Origine: The Song of Achilles

“This, I say. This and this. The way his hair looked in summer sun. His face when he ran. His eyes, solemn as an owl at lessons. This and this and this. So many moments of happiness, crowding forward.”

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Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

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

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Origine: The Song of Achilles

“As for the goddess’s answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone.”

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Origine: The Song of Achilles

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

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Origine: The Song of Achilles

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

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Origine: The Song of Achilles

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”

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“There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”

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“I feel like I could eat the world raw.”

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

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“I am made of memories.”

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“I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”

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Origine: The Song of Achilles

“Bring him back to me,' he told them.”

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

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“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.”

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Origine: The Song of Achilles

“She wants you to be a god," I told him.
"I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.”

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Origine: The Song of Achilles

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

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Variante: 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.
Origine: The Song of Achilles

“It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright were they dull.”

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Origine: The Song of Achilles

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

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Origine: The Song of Achilles

“It is right to seek peace for the dead. You and I both know there is no peace for those who live after.”

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“I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.”

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Origine: The Song of Achilles

“I am air and thought and can do nothing.”

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Origine: The Song of Achilles

“Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.”

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

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“I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop of heartsblood lost.”

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Origine: The Song of Achilles

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