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“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

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

“It's painfully beautiful,' I say.
'Just so we are clear,' he says, 'I will never love anyone the way I love you.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

“Every single time I see the ocean, even if I've been there in the morning, it feels like a new miracle--its power, its. blueness always just. as overwhelming. Like falling in love.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace