Patrochilles Quotes & Sayings

I saw then how I had changed. I did not mind anymore that I lost when we raced and I lost when we swam out to the rocks and I lost when we tossed spears or skipped stones. For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty? It was enough to watch him win, to see the soles of his feet flashing as they kicked up sand, or the rise and fall of his shoulders as he pulled through the salt. It was enough. — Madeline Miller

Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well. — Bonnie Tyler

There are all kinds of sexualities. There are all kinds of ways that people express their sexuality. — Jessica Capshaw

It is so easy to become more attached to the gifts of God than to the Giver - and even, I should add, to the work of God than to God Himself. — Watchman Nee

When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together. — Madeline Miller

Have you no memories?'
I am made of memories.
'Then speak. — Madeline Miller

What does it take, then? I love you. I've never loved any woman the way I love you. — Rachel Gibson

Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only. — Madeline Miller

Nothing comes easy when I'm in character, because everything I do in character, I take seriously. — Vin Diesel

As for the goddess's answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone. — Madeline Miller

And Heyst, the son, read:
Of the stratagems of life the most cruel is the consolation of love - the most subtle, too; for the desire is the bed of dreams. — Joseph Conrad

When you learn to love unconditionally and deeply, you gain the power of love. — Debasish Mridha

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. — Dean Koontz

I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don't look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That's what I do. — Barry Manilow

Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing. — George Herbert

world and time erases not just memories but entire civilizations, reducing everyone and every monument to dust. The only thing that survives is love, for it is an energy as enduring as light, which travels outward from its source toward the ever-expanding boundaries of the universe, the very energy of which all things were conceived and with which all things will be sustained in — Dean Koontz

Careful, mother, or you could end up dangling in another's webs. — Karen Azinger

Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all. — Madeline Miller

For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty? — Madeline Miller

The blow back from the cold war is that a weakened Russia allowed Afghanistan to become a failed state, and then all this weaponry to flow into all these other conflicts. Our greatest triumph has almost fueled our most intractable battle now. — Jon Stewart

Then, too, the dissemination of the truth in a society based on coercion was always hindered in one and the same manner, namely, those in power, feeling that the recognition of this truth would undermine their position, consciously or sometimes unconsciously perverted it by explanations and additions quite foreign to it, and also opposed it by open violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Indeed, he seemed utterly unaware of his effect on the boys around him. — Madeline Miller

Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name. — Madeline Miller

Achilles' eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. I wish he had let you all die. — Madeline Miller

Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you! — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free. — Madeline Miller