In a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.
—Madeline Miller in Circe
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...
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Perhaps it is the greater grief to be left on earth when another is gone.
—Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles
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