""You're not a monster," I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once."
—OCEAN VUONG, "on earth we're briefly gorgeous""But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind."
—MADELINE MILLER, "circe"
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Fanfictionyou are the teeth i spit out. fem!oc x percy jackson SoN - ??? book 1 in the 'dark side of the moon' series jediruins © 2021 ...