Frasi di Madeline Miller (55 frasi, pagina 2)

Madeline Miller: 55 citazioni0 Mi piace

Madeline Miller: Frasi in inglese

“What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another. We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory… We are men only, a brief flare of the torch.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“… nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“Afterwards, when Agamemnon would ask him when he would confront the prince of Troy, he would smile his most guileless, maddening smile. “What has Hector ever done to me?”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“Go," She says. "He waits for you.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“I almost did not come, because I did not want to leave it."
He smiled. "Now I know how to make you follow me everywhere."
The sun sank below Pelion's ridges, and we were happy.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“A surety rose in me, lodged in my throat. I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Variante: I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
Origine: The Song of Achilles

“He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

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

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“The sorrow was so large it threatened to tear through my skin. When he died, all things swift and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“Her mouth was a gash of red, like the torn-open stomach of a sacrifice, bloody and oracular. Behind it her teeth shone sharp and white as bone.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

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

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“There is this too.” His hand was ceaseless now. “I know I have told you of this.”

I closed my eyes. “Tell me again,” I said.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“The flames surround me, and I feel myself slipping further from life, thinning to only the faintest shiver in the air. I yearn for the darkness and silence of the underworld, where I can rest.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“Divine blood flows differently in each god-born child.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“Achilles makes a sound like choking. “There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.” His spearpoint flies in a dark whirlwind, bright as the evening-star, to catch the hollow at Hector’s throat.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“The sound was pure and sweet as water, bright as lemons.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“There is no honour in betraying your friends.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

“That is — your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”

Help us translate this quote

Madeline Miller libro The Song of Achilles

Origine: The Song of Achilles

Autori simili

Lauren Kate29

scrittrice statunitense None

Laurell K. Hamilton41

scrittrice statunitense None

Cassandra Clare212

scrittrice statunitense None

Jenny Han2

scrittrice statunitense None

J. K. Rowling143

scrittrice britannica None

Sherrilyn Kenyon14

scrittrice statunitense None

Muriel Barbery107

scrittrice francese None

Rick Riordan45

scrittore statunitense None

Patrick Rothfuss3

scrittore statunitense None

Chris Kyle23

militare statunitense None