kym phillips

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Well, I may or may not be bitter, but if I were I would have good reasons for it: chief among them that American blindness, or cowardice, which allows us to pretend that life presents no reasons for being bitter.”
― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro

“You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe