Thetis Quotes

“As for the goddess’s answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“My mother Thetis tells me that there are two ways in which I may meet my end. If I stay here and fight, I will not return alive but my name will live forever: whereas if I go home my name will die, but it will be long ere death shall take me.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“As for the goddess' answer. I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I have done it,' she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. ACHILLES, it reads. And beside it, PATROCLUS.
'Go,' she says. 'He waits for you.'

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood, like a hundred golden urns pouring out the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Her mouth tightens. 'Have you no more memories?'
I am made of memories.
'Speak, then.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I could not burn your mortality from your body, so live before your days are gone and regret fills your heart.”
― Janell Rhiannon, Rise of Princes

“So about a million pages ago, I mentioned Zeus's first wife, the Titan Metis. Remember her? Neither did I. I had to go back and look. All these names: Metis and Thetis and Themis and Feta Cheese—I get a headache trying to keep them straight.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

“She was taller than I was, taller than any woman I had ever seen. Her black hair was loose down her back, and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“...in his wild grief Achilles cried aloud, and his mother Thetis heard him...Immediately she rose up through the water...after her came her sisters...and each one's wailing was the thin sound of the wind upon the waves.”
― Barbara Leonie Picard, The Iliad of Homer

“What could she do? Kidnap me?”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“She made Pyrrhus, and loved him more than Achilles.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I could not make him a god,' she says. Her jagged voice, rich with grief.
But you made him.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Helen, your sinful deeds brought a bitter end
to Priam and his lovely children. They say
because of you holy Ilium was destroyed
by climbing fire.

But the son of Aiakos did not find such a wife
when he summoned the blessed gods to his wedding
and took the delicate sea nymph Thetis from
the watery palace

of Nereus, bringing her to the mountain cave
of the centaur Cheiron. There, the love of Peleus
for his sea-nymph led him to lie naked with
the untouched virgin,

and within the year she bore a son, Achilles;
bravest demigod and splendid driver of
tawny stallions. But for Helen, Ilium and
her people were destroyed.”
― Alkaios