“The scars themselves I offered to wipe away. He shook his head. "How would I know myself?”
― Circe
― Circe
“I remembered what Odysseus had said about her once. That she never went astray, never made an error. I had been jealous then. Now I thought: what a burden. What an ugly weight upon your back.”
― Circe
― Circe
“There was a sort of innocence to him, I thought. I do not mean this as the poets mean it: a virtue to be broken by the story's end, or else upheld at great cost. Nor do I mean that he was foolish or guileless. I mean that he was made only of himself, without the dregs that clog the rest of us. He thought and felt and acted, and all these things made a straight line. No wonder his father had been so baffled by him. He would have always been looking for the hidden meaning, the knife in the dark. But Telemachus carried his blade in the open.”
― Circe
― Circe
“courage is not a matter of age, but true-made spirits.”
― Circe
― Circe
“We bear it as best we can,”
― Circe
― Circe
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