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“They take what they want, and in return they give you only your own shackles. A thousand times I saw you squashed. I squashed you myself. And every time, I thought, that is it, she is done, she will cry herself into a stone, into some croaking bird, she will leave us and good riddance. Yet always you came back the next day. They were all surprised when you showed yourself a witch, but I knew it long ago. Despite your wet-mouse weeping, I saw how you would not be ground into the earth. You loathed them as I did. I think it is where our power comes from.”
― Circe
― Circe
“You are wise,' he said.
'If it is so,' I said, 'it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes.”
― Circe
'If it is so,' I said, 'it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes.”
― Circe
“It took me a moment to understand. I had not thought him so bold. But of course he was. Artist, creator, inventor, the greatest the world had known. Timidity creates nothing.”
― Circe
― Circe
“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.”
― Circe
― Circe
“Prometheus’ words, deep-running as roots, had waited in me all this time. “We bear it as best we can,” I said.”
― Circe
― Circe
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