something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.
“I remembered how my father had once told me that on earth there were men called astronomers whose task it was to keep track of his rising and setting. They were held in highest esteem among mortals, kept in palaces as counselors of kings, but sometimes my father lingered over one thing or another and threw their calculations into despair. Then those astronomers were hauled before the kings they served and killed as frauds. My father had smiled when he told me. It was what they deserved, he said. Helios the Sun was bound to no will but his own, and none might say what he would do. “Father,” I said that day, “are we late enough to kill astronomers?” “We are,” he answered,”
― Circe
― Circe
“The most insidious part of fame for April wasn’t that other people dehumanized her; it was that she dehumanized herself.”
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“when a radical extremist stabs someone in the back, the only person at fault is the radical extremist.”
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“When at last they pulled off the veil, they say my mother smiled. That is how they knew she was quite stupid. Brides did not smile.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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