Madeline Miller

Galatea

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  • Naomi Sotelohas quoted3 years ago
    Feel how chilled your hands are?’
  • Gealynnehas quoted3 months ago
    I used to be made of stone.”
  • ninahas quoted2 years ago
    Because I used to be made of stone.
  • weirdduckhas quoted3 years ago
    With the gods, all things are possible, I said. Look at my stomach. I had puffed it a little, so that it looked like a mound. And anyway, he did not know what women looked like. To him, if there was anything, it was strange.
  • Tea Julie Barderhas quoted3 years ago
    I live every day yearning for you to come. You are my husband, and father.’
    ‘And mother,’ he said.
    ‘Yes, and mother. And brother too. And lover. All of these.’
  • Tea Julie Barderhas quoted3 years ago
    he couch without moving so that he might murmur, ‘Ah, my beauty is asleep.’ A few times in the past,
  • Tea Julie Barderhas quoted3 years ago
    ‘Lie down this instant,’ he said. Then, when I obeyed, he took my wrist and held it. ‘Your pulse is slow,’ he said.
  • Tea Julie Barderhas quoted3 years ago
    my neck, and the purple on my arms and chest where he had gripped me. He rubbed at them, as though they were stains, not bruises. ‘The colour is perfect,’ he said, ‘Look.’ And he held up the mirror so I could see. ‘You make the rarest canvas, love.’
  • Tea Julie Barderhas quoted3 years ago
    I was tired and sick and my feet were too swollen for the delicate golden sandals he liked to see them in. It made him angry, but it did not stop him from pushing me onto the bed or up against the wall, and I worried that because of it I would have not one child, but a whole litter at once, like the cats in the street.

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  • Tea Julie Barderhas quoted3 years ago
    . But it does seem foolish that he didn’t think it through, how I could not both live and still be a statue.
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