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“For her grasshopper, nightingale of the field, and her tree-dwelling
cicada, Myro built a common tomb,
a girl who shed a virgin's tear. For pitiless
Hades left with both her toys.”
― Anyte, The Poems of Anyte of Tegea

“Everything is a negotiation with you, Brekker. You probably bartered your way out of the womb.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe