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Cyndi
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“Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.”
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“A golden cage is still a cage.”
― Circe
― Circe
“The women I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong and they handled it. They handled it a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes.”
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“You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
― Circe
― Circe
“-’Tell me’, he said, ‘who gives better offerings, a miserable man or a happy one’?
-’A happy one, of course.’
-’Wrong. A happy man is too occupied with his life. He thinks he is beholden to no one. But make him shiver, kill his wife, cripple his child, then you will hear from him. He will starve his family for a month to buy yo a pure-white yearling calf. If he can afford it, he will buy you a hundred’.
-’But surely, I said, you have to reward him eventually. Otherwise he will stop offering’.
-’Oh, you would be surprised how long he will go on. But yes, in the end, it’s best to give him something. Then he will be happy again. And you can start over.”
― Circe
-’A happy one, of course.’
-’Wrong. A happy man is too occupied with his life. He thinks he is beholden to no one. But make him shiver, kill his wife, cripple his child, then you will hear from him. He will starve his family for a month to buy yo a pure-white yearling calf. If he can afford it, he will buy you a hundred’.
-’But surely, I said, you have to reward him eventually. Otherwise he will stop offering’.
-’Oh, you would be surprised how long he will go on. But yes, in the end, it’s best to give him something. Then he will be happy again. And you can start over.”
― Circe
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Cyndi’s 2025 Year in Books
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