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

“You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“It all had a classy, run-down look, like a place to be aesthetically killed by a really famous poltergeist.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk