Circe
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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.


“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Circe
― Circe

“And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina

“It was Daedalus who answered. A golden cage is still a cage.”
― Circe
― Circe

“I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina

“Sophie’s experience told her that tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.”
― Howl's Moving Castle
― Howl's Moving Castle
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