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‘What was the fight over?’ ‘Let me see if I can remember the list.’ He ticked his fingers. ‘Vengeance. Lust. Hubris. Greed. Power. What have I forgotten? Ah yes, vanity, and pique.’ ‘Sounds like a usual day among the gods,’ I said.

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

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“For the first time in her life, Tilo felt that her body had enough room to accomodate all of its organs.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

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“I couldn’t control what was done to me. But my response to it was in my control.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments

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“We turned to my questions about the Edison. How many blood tests did Theranos perform on the device? That too was a trade secret, they said. I felt like I was watching a live performance of the Theater of the Absurd.”
― John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

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“Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him- into the very earth and air and water- until there's nothing else.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

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