Andrea

“Yes,” he said. “That is how it works, Circe. I tell Father that my sorcery was an accident, he pretends to believe me, and Zeus pretends to believe him, and so the world is balanced. It is your own fault for confessing. Why you did that, I will never understand.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“She is constant. Constant in all things. Even wise men go astray sometimes, but never her. She is a fixed star, a true-made bow[...] Nothing she says has a single meaning, nor a single intention, yet she is steady. She knows herself.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I had asked Odysseus: 'What did you do? When you could not make Achilles and Agamemnon listen?'
He'd smiled in the firelight. 'That is easy. You make a plan in which they do not.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe