Ariadne Farah

“So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.

“You have always been the worst of my children,” he said. “Be sure to not dishonor me.”

“I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein