layne ☆

“You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“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 it means to be alive.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe