Santa Maddin

“Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“How do you force a man to fight – for freedom? The idiocy of it jarred him.”
― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War

“The nymphs remained. When they finished their terms of service, others arrived to take their place. Sometimes there were four, sometimes six or seven. They trembled when I passed, ducking and calling me mistress, but it meant nothing. I had been put in my place. At a word and a whim from my father all my vaunted power blew away. Not even my father: any river-god had the right to fill my island, and I could not stop him. The nymphs wafted around me. Their smothered laughter drifted down the halls. At least, I told myself, it was not their brothers, who would have bragged and fought and hunted down my wolves. But of course that was never a real danger. Sons were not punished.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“We have no choice of what color we are born or who our parents are or whether we are rich or poor. What we do have is some choice of what to do with our lives once we are here”
― Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry