I have never been into greek mythology until Circe. I didn’t even get past reading Odyssey – one of my goals is to read it again…
Miller wrote so beautifully that I felt as though the character, Circe was right next to me. Her life despairs, challenges and state of living were starkly different from the modern time we are in now, no doubt. Still, I couldn’t help but relate to her. The misunderstood woman she was, not that I ever felt I was always misunderstood, but to say there wasn’t is a lie and to say it was minor is a greater lie. The people-pleaser woman she was, how she wanted badly to identify herself with her loved ones and her journey in love.
I also discovered that the story is very similar to other greek mythology tales and introduced familiar characters like Zeus, Helios, Odysseus… anyway, go read it, you will definitely get hooked.
Some of my favourite quotes:
“The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
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 was he to me
He showed me his scars, and in return he Let me pretend that I had none.
The world is filled with more than breezes: diseases and disasters, monsters and pain in a thousand variations. I do not forget either my father or his kind hanging over us, bright and sharp as swords, aimed at our tearing flesh. If they do not fall on us in spite and malice, then they will fall by accident or whim. My breath fights in my throat. How can I live on beneath such a burden of doom?
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