Santa Maddin

“Fuzzy Tally is no more.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Pretties

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

“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

“She had
become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the
air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.”
― O. Henry, The Complete Life of John Hopkins