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Telemachus i love you...

“All my past is like today, monsters and horrors no one wants to hear.”
“I want to hear.”

Circe and Penelope girlbosses.

“Her eyes held mine, gray and steady. It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment’s carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.”

“Beneath my feet were the bones of a thousand years. I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer.”

This chapter talked a lot about motherhood and i rlly liked this line
“Every night when he slept, I stood over his bed and told myself: tomorrow I will do better.”