“again. So why did I not mind? Why did none of us mind? I cannot speak for my brothers and sister, but my answer is easy. For a hundred generations, I had walked the world drowsy and dull, idle and at my ease. I left no prints, I did no deeds. Even those who had loved me a little did not care to stay. Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow. I would have done that toil a thousand times to keep such power in my hands. I thought: this is how Zeus felt when he first lifted”
― Circe
― Circe
“heads, making sounds like water over rocks. Helios, you have the strangest children. My father sighed. ‘It is Perse’s fault. All the ones before hers were fine.”
― Circe
― Circe
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