“I could feel the weight of it pressing down upon me like the heavy sky that Atlas bears upon his mighty shoulders.” PowerMetaphorGreek MythologyImagery Book:Ariadne Source: Ariadne
“I took that story with me in the coming days and turned it over, like the stone in a ripe peach: the sudden, unexpected hard shock in the centre of everything.” MetaphorImagery Book:Ariadne Source: Ariadne
“What the god's liked was ferocity, savagery, the snarl and the bite and the fear. Always, always the fear, the naked edge of it behind the smoke rising from the altars, the high note of it in the muttered prayers and praise we sent heavenward.” MetaphorGreek MythologyImageryGreek Gods Book:Ariadne Source: Ariadne