Mina

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“We think we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers, yet we possess only metaphors of the things, which in no way correspond to the original essences. Just”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe