Yssah

“Circe, he says, it will be all right.

It is not the saying of an oracle or a prophet. ... He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what is means to be alive.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“One of the liabilities of being a deep thinker, Wyatt mused, was that it left him vulnerable to existential crises.”
― Bridie Clark