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“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.”
― Circe
He'd smiled in the firelight. 'That is easy. You make a plan in which they do not.”
― 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
“Next time you're going to defy the gods, do it for a better reason.”
― Circe
― Circe
“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
“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.”
― Circe
― Circe
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