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“Overhead the constellations dip and wheel. My divinity shines in me like the last rays of the sun before they drown in the sea. I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.
All my life, I have been moving forward, and now I am here. I have a mortal's voice, let me have the rest. I lift the brimming bowl to my lips and drink.”
― Circe
All my life, I have been moving forward, and now I am here. I have a mortal's voice, let me have the rest. I lift the brimming bowl to my lips and drink.”
― Circe
“It was better to tell such stories close to the river than in a drawing room. Words accumulate indoors, trapped by walls and ceilings. The weight of what has been said can lie heavily on what might yet be said and suffocate it. By the river the air carries the story on a journey: one sentence drifts away and makes way for the next.”
― Once Upon a River
― Once Upon a River
“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― The Help
― The Help
“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Circe
― Circe
“There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.”
― Things Fall Apart
― Things Fall Apart
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