“Little by little I began to listen better: to the sap moving in the plants, to the blood in my veins. I learned to understand my own intention, to prune and to add, to feel where the power gathered and speak the right words to draw it to its height. That was the moment I lived for, when it all came clear at last and the spell could sing with its pure note, for me and me alone.”
Madeline Miller is an American novelist known for her modern interpretations of Greek mythology. Born on July 24, 1978, she graduated from Princeton University and later earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her works, 'The Song of Achilles' and 'Circe', have been widely acclaimed by readers. more
“But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it.”
“He liked such sharpness, for there was nothing in him that had any blood you might spill.”
“He was a poison snake, and I was another, and on such terms we pleased ourselves.”
“I will not sentence myself to such a living death.”
“I was a golden witch, who had no past at all.”