Circe Quote by Madeline Miller

“I was familiar with the realms of unnatural, for I myself was an unnatural. Not a monster in appearance; I looked like other young…

— Adam McOmber

“He had been around plenty of women but this one was different. This one looked pure. This one looked like she had no hidden…

— Soroosh Shahrivar

“I saw how pure, in a way, they were – no matter what they had done. Each in their own way they had tried…

— Peter Høeg

“I didn't even know what it was about her. She wasn't a classic beauty, and gods knew, in the past, that was about all…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“There was nothing quite like sworn testimony to make life look trivial and mean ever after. Also:”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“and life, seeing her own image, was still, and dared not to speak.”

— Oscar Wilde

“People made no sense to her. Men, with whom she had everything in common, did not want her around. Women, with whom she had…

— Philipp Meyer

“But I have never wanted to be perceived as chatty and bright. I have always wanted to be solemn and mysterious.”

— Sara Baume

“She was a virgin and a warrior, disdainful of the male, which was what eventually convinced people that she really must be off her…

— Émile Zola

“She was one of the few souls that made me wonder what it was to live.”

— Markus Zusak

“It was like being able to fight, she realized. And being able to change accents. They were powers that lived in your body. They…

— E. Lockhart

“It was one of the few things he had to believe in, the possibility of beauty when faced with the reality of so much…

— Cassandra Clare