#lectophile quotes

[lectophile]

Think what your fire might do if you set it free.

Circe by Madeline Miller

[lectophile]

Please, they cried, on bony knees, it wasn’t our fault, the sun itself was late.

Circe by Madeline Miller

[lectophile]

You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.

Circe by Madeline Miller

[lectophile]

At my father’s feet, the whole world was made of gold.

Circe by Madeline Miller

[lectophile]

Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.

Circe by Madeline Miller

[lectophile]

However gold he shines, do not forget his fire.

Circe by Madeline Miller

[lectophile]

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

Circe by Madeline Miller