## Metadata * Author: [[Madeline Miller]] * ASIN: B074M5TLLJ * ISBN: 0316556343 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074M5TLLJ ## Highlights Divine days fall like water from a cataract, — location: [138](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074M5TLLJ&location=138) ^ref-60171 --- The land was drenched in boiling gouts of blood so potent that rare flowers sprang up where they fell. — location: [220](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074M5TLLJ&location=220) ^ref-27022 --- I raised the cup to his lips and he drank. I watched his throat moving gently. His skin was beautiful, the color of polished walnut. It smelled of green moss drenched with rain. — location: [295](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074M5TLLJ&location=295) ^ref-28153 --- my grandfather Oceanos smelled deep as rich river mud, and my father like a searing blaze of just-fed fire. — location: [305](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074M5TLLJ&location=305) ^ref-15533 --- She would be happy here, I thought. Or preeminent, which was the same to her. — location: [448](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074M5TLLJ&location=448) ^ref-24178 --- I loved to watch him at his daily tasks, which he did with his hands instead of a blink of power: — location: [518](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074M5TLLJ&location=518) ^ref-61540 --- When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world. — location: [570](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074M5TLLJ&location=570) ^ref-47564 --- I fled so she would not see my tears and wear them as another of her trophies. — location: [706](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074M5TLLJ&location=706) ^ref-41221 --- What was I truly? In the end, I could not bear to know. — location: [861](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074M5TLLJ&location=861) ^ref-60976 ---