Karen

“Thus in life there is ever the intellectual and the emotional nature—the mind that reasons, and the mind that feels. Of one come the men of action—generals and statesmen; of the other, the poets and dreamers—artists all.”
― Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie

“I had felt untouchable, filled with teeth and power.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I thought I cannot bear this world a moment longer.
Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Little by little I began to listen better: to the sap moving in the plants, to the blood in my veins. I learned to understand my own intention, to prune and to add, to feel where the power gathered and speak the right words to draw it to its height. That was the moment I lived for, when it all came clear at last and the spell could sing with its pure note, for me and me alone.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe