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“He felt like a broken machine himself — like someone had removed one little part of him, and now he’d never be complete. He might move, he might talk, he might keep going and do his job. But he’d always be off balance, never calibrated exactly right.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

“She wanted to be beautiful, even if it was only in one man’s eyes.”
― Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton

“What can I say?” He held out his palms. “The world is an ugly place. We must live in it.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Among the gods there are a few who have the gift of prophecy, the ability to peer into the murk and glimpse what fates will come. Not everything may be foreseen. Most gods and mortals have lives that are tied to nothing; they tangle and wend now here, now there, according to no set plan. But then there are those who wear their destinies like nooses, whose lives run straight as planks, however they try to twist. It is these that our prophets may see.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe