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“I had not fooled myself with false hope. I was a goddess, and he a mortal, and both of us were imprisoned. But I pressed his face into my mind, as seals are pressed in wax, so I could carry it with me.”

Circe Icarus Theseus Crete Daedalus Ariadne The Minotaur Pasiphae

Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“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.”

Feminism Feminist Misogyny Patriarchy Double Standards Circe

Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“I had kept away from him for so many reasons: his mother and my son, his father and Athena. Because I was a god, and he a man. But it struck me then that at the root of all those reasons was a sort of fear. And I had never been a coward. I reached across that breathing air between us and found him.”

Love Romance Circe Telemachus

Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“I know who you are, daughter of the sun. All that the sea touches comes to me at last in the depths. I have tasted you. I have tasted all your family. Your brother came once also seeking my power. He went away empty-handed, like all the rest. I am not such a one as you may fight.”

Circe Greek Myths Trygon

Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“The only was to power for woman is sorcery. Medea, Calypso, now there were powerful woman! And me, of course. The greatest of all.”

Greek Mythology Circe Woman In Greek Mythology

Book:The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

“The only way to power for woman is sorcery. Medea, Calypso, now there were powerful woman! And me, of course. The greatest of all.”

Greek Mythology Circe Woman In Greek Mythology

Book:The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

“Nature is magic, Medea, and magic is nature. It is the rawest essence of our world, a power infused by the divine when they created it. It sings through Gaia’s veins, but only few can hear it, only those Hecate allows. Listen.”

Nature Magic Witch Circe Medea Hecate

Book:Medea

Source: Medea

“My father has never been able to imagine the world without himself in it”

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“what was his best part?' 'his lover patroclus”

Achilles Circe Patroclus

Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“Daedalus had said to me once: Even the best iron grows brittle with too much beating.”

Greek Circe Odysseus Daedalus P179

Book:Circe

Source: Circe