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Madeline Miller

Circe

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  • Ivana Lolahas quoted4 years ago
    A happy man is too occupied with his life. He thinks he is beholden to no one. But make him shiver, kill his wife, cripple his child, then you will hear from him. He will starve his family for a month to buy you a pure-white yearling calf. If he can afford it, he will buy you a hundred.”
  • Arooma Zehrahas quoted2 years ago
    I thought once that

    gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than

    anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.
  • Arooma Zehrahas quoted2 years ago
    “We are not our blood,” he answered.
  • Arooma Zehrahas quoted2 years ago
    But I

    would find something else for him. I would help him forget. I would say,

    some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.
  • Arooma Zehrahas quoted2 years ago
    But perhaps no parent can truly see their

    child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults
  • Arooma Zehrahas quoted2 years ago
    “I asked her how she did it once, how she understood the world so

    clearly. She told me that it was a matter of keeping very still and showing

    no emotions, leaving room for others to reveal themselves.
  • Arooma Zehrahas quoted2 years ago
    would I be like

    Achilles, wailing over his lost lover Patroclus?
  • Arooma Zehrahas quoted2 years ago
    Daedalus had said to me once: Even the best iron grows brittle with too

    much beating.
  • Arooma Zehrahas quoted2 years ago
    Diomedes, Odysseus’ ruthless right

    hand
  • Arooma Zehrahas quoted2 years ago
    cyclops Polyphemus, a savage one-eyed giant who

    was a son of Poseidon
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