Perhaps it is the greater grief to be left on earth when another is gone.
—Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles
Quotes from the book The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
About Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller (born July 24, 1978) is an American novelist, author of The Song of Achilles (2011) and Circe (2018). Miller spent ten years writing The Song of Achilles while she worked as a teacher of Latin and Greek. The novel tells the story of the love between the mythological figures Achilles and Patroclus; it won the Orange Prize for Fiction, making Miller the fourth debut novelist to win the prize. She is a 2019 recipient of the Alex Awards.