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“How much of your life had been happenstance? How much of your life had been a roll of the big polyhedral die in the sky? But then, weren’t all lives that way? Who could say, in the end, that they had chosen any of it?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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

“I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“That is one thing gods and mortals share. When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe