Madeline Miller: Likeness

Madeline Miller is American writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“I feel like I could eat the world raw.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright were they dull.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: 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.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

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

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

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

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: 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.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles