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“Medea: Let no one think of me As humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends”

— Euripides, Medea (tr. by Philip Vellacott)

I looked down at my hands and tried to imagine them weaving a spell to shake the world.

Madeline Miller, Circe (via andrrewgarfield)

He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.

Madeline Miller, from Circe (Little, Brown, and Co., 2018)

“I have dreamed of your Wall, Jon Snow. Great was the lore that raised it, and great the spells locked beneath its ice. We walk beneath one of the hinges of the world.”

— Melisandre of Asshai

If half of an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good, or he is evil.

~ Melisandre of Asshai to Davos Seaworth (via sprightlysylph)

“I do not have room to carry anyone’s chaos but mine.”

— Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak

“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”

CIRCE, by Madeline Miller

Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1969)

- and why did Lilith eat the bones of her enemies? because even the night must remember to devour her own horrors.

witch, demon, lady, goddess, but always just a girl || O.L. (via poetbitesback)

— EURIPIDES, from ‘Medea’, trans. Philip Vellacott.

"Davos Seaworth. There will come a day when The Seven will prove themselves weak. And you will turn to me. And Rhllor will grant a miracle."

-Melisandre

oh to be a fledgling necromancer and enchant a skull to laugh at my jokes

prophecy class cancelled due to foreseen circumstances

I would come to know this type of man, jealous of his little power, to whom I was only a woman.

Circe, by Madeline Miller. (via like-it-was-yesterday)

He was a poison snake, and I was another, and on such terms we pleased ourselves.

Circe, Madeline Miller

“men perjure the word witch”

- c.g.

It was their favorite bitter joke: those who fight against prophecy only draw it more tightly around their throats.

Circe, Madeline Miller (via sargents-blue)

- Techniques of Solomonic Magic: The origins and methods of the Solomonic grimoires by Dr. Stephen Skinner (p 5)

you thought they were sugar and swallowed them whole and now your insides are burning

lenee h. (via leneemusing)