When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English … - Madeline Miller

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When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our present.

Madeline Miller

When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots. Learning Greek was like being given a super-power: linguistic x-ray vision.

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Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

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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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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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As an author, one of the most important things I think you can do once you've written a novel is step back. When the book is out, it belongs to the readers and you can't stand there breathing over their shoulders.

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and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

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