{"author":"Madeline Miller","author_id":"Madeline+Miller","total_quotes":36,"quotes":[{"text":"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?","author":"Madeline Miller","tags":["historical-fiction"],"id":6813,"author_id":"Madeline+Miller"},{"text":"He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.","author":"Madeline Miller","tags":["mythology","war"],"id":7289,"author_id":"Madeline+Miller"},{"text":"For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty?","author":"Madeline Miller","tags":["beauty","devotion","grief","love","patrochilles","support"],"id":7721,"author_id":"Madeline+Miller"},{"text":"He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight.","author":"Madeline Miller","tags":["achilles","beautiful","love","patroclus"],"id":24737,"author_id":"Madeline+Miller"},{"text":"When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.","author":"Madeline Miller","tags":["achilles","ashes","burried-together","dead","patrochilles","patroclus"],"id":30602,"author_id":"Madeline+Miller"},{"text":"Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.","author":"Madeline Miller","tags":["achilles","dead","name","patrochilles","patroclus","weeping"],"id":51562,"author_id":"Madeline+Miller"},{"text":"But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?","author":"Madeline Miller","tags":["heart","inspirational","myth"],"id":65719,"author_id":"Madeline+Miller"},{"text":"Peleus acknowledged this. 'Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will you tell them?' 'I will tell them nothing.' The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. 'It is not for them to say what I will do.","author":"Madeline Miller","tags":["achilles","mythology","patroclus"],"id":82903,"author_id":"Madeline+Miller"},{"text":"The never-ending ache of love and sorrow.","author":"Madeline Miller","tags":["historical-fiction"],"id":89962,"author_id":"Madeline+Miller"},{"text":"She wants you to be a god,' I told him.'I know.' His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.","author":"Madeline Miller","tags":["family","parents-and-children"],"id":104445,"author_id":"Madeline+Miller"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}