#circedit

[heartwasglass]

CIRCE | Κίρκηs ≡ goddess, sorceress, enchantress.

when I was born, the word for what I was did not exist.

[dreamertrilogys]

@booknet Event 01 | Favourite Character | Circe

“Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.”

[capulets]

“Is it true that you refused to beg for pardon? And that you were not caught, but confessed to Zeus freely what you did?”

 “It is.”

 “Why?” His eyes were steady on mine. 

“Perhaps you will tell me. Why would a god do such a thing?”

 I had no answer. It seemed to me madness to invite divine punishment, but I could not say that to him, not when I stood in his blood. 

“Not every god need be the same,” he said.  

— Circe, Madeline Miller.