Sydney Moran

“How to explain that we all show up to this party with no invite and no apparent host, and we can depart from it at any moment for no reason?”
― Stephen Markley, Ohio

“It's not fair," I said. "It cannot be."

"Those are two different things," my grandmother said.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Amusement flashed in his eyes. I had fed off that look once, when I had been starving and thought such crumbs a feast.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“This was how mortals found fame, I thought. Through practice and diligence, tending their skills like gardens until they glowed beneath the sun. 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