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Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)

by Henry Miller

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— Sep 12, 2026 04:14PM

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“But of course I could not die. I would live on, through each scalding moment to the next. This is the grief that makes our kind choose to be stones and trees rather than flesh.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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“The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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“Fear of failure was the worst thing for any spell.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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“But there was no wound she could give me that I had not already given myself.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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“It was my first lesson. Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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