“I had kept away from him for so many reasons: his mother and my son, his father and Athena. Because I was a god, and he a man. But it struck me then that at the root of all those reasons was a sort of fear. And I had never been a coward. I reached across that breathing air between us and found him.”
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
“My father has never been able to imagine the world without himself in it”
“what was his best part?' 'his lover patroclus”
“Daedalus had said to me once: Even the best iron grows brittle with too much beating.”
“Do you always make beautiful things for those you are angry with?”
“but there was no wound she could give me that i had nit already given myself”