Will we meet again sometime? I’m sure we will. Promise? Promise.
SPIRITED AWAY 2001, dir. Hayao Miyazaki
“i asked her how she did it once, how she understood the world so clearly. she told me that it was a matter of keeping very still and showing no emotions, leaving room for others to reveal themselves.”
- Circe by Madeline Miller (304)
“‘You have always been the worst of my children,’ he said. 'Be sure you do not dishonor me.’ 'I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.’”
— Madeline Miller, Circe
C I R C E written by Madeline Miller
A novel about Circe, the Witch of Aiaia.
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation he was to me.”
— Madeline Miller, Circe
CIRCE • MADELINE MILLER
“i would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
patroclus by the river lethe ☁️
— then, we just… were. —
this gets me every time.
the song of achilles, madeline miller
i don't rate books based on character development and plot holes. if it made me bawl my eyes out and search up its fanarts at 3 am it's a 5/5
"I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
“his kiss still thrills me, even after a millennia”
yep yep yep yep this is beautiful yep