“Circe, he says, it will be all right.
It is not the saying of an oracle or a prophet. ... He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. 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 is means to be alive.”
― Circe
It is not the saying of an oracle or a prophet. ... He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. 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 is means to be alive.”
― Circe
“All the stars were falling: Aslan had called them home.”
― The Last Battle
― The Last Battle
“I am torn and I am mended - I want everything and need nothing - I love you and am content without you.
Even so, come quickly!”
― The Essex Serpent
Even so, come quickly!”
― The Essex Serpent
“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Circe
― Circe
“Essex has her bride’s gown on: there’s cow parsley frothing by the road and daisies on the common, and the hawthorn’s dressed in white; wheat and barley fatten in the fields, and bindweed decks the hedges.”
― The Essex Serpent
― The Essex Serpent
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