Catherine Slaughter

“Humans are terrible at believing reality.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“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,”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“when a radical extremist stabs someone in the back, the only person at fault is the radical extremist.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“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.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles