“I know who you are, daughter of the sun. All that the sea touches comes to me at last in the depths. I have tasted you. I have tasted all your family. Your brother came once also seeking my power. He went away empty-handed, like all the rest. I am not such a one as you may fight.”
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”
“i had never thought of having children, but looking at him, for a moment i could imagine it”