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

“You are a little heartless today, aren't you?"
"Never," I say. "There are seventeen under my bed.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“There is a gaping hole perhaps for all of us, where our mother does not match up with “mother” as we believe it’s meant to mean and all it’s meant to give us. What I cannot tell her is all that I would tell her if I could find a way to not still be sad and angry about that.”
― Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence