“Medusa's mouth twisted. "I would rather be remembered for what I did, what I said, whom I loved, than how I met my end.”
Source: Medusa's Sisters
“Euryale liked humans...She liked the way they were so prone to anxiety and haste.”
Source: Stone Blind
“Danaë chose to survive. She chose to be brave, and perhaps she also chose revenge, for she named her son Perseus, the Destroyer. Do ewes call their lambs such?”
Source: Medusa's Sisters
“Zeus may wish us ill, in other words, but that doesn't mean Pandora herself is evil, any more than the lightning which Zeus hurls at those of us who displease him is evil. Lightning is neutral, neither good nor bad, however much we fear it. Perhaps we can accept that Pandora is the same, unless we choose to see her otherwise.”
Source: Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
“For many centuries to come, men will avoid those woods, taking the long route instead. Beware the Stone Maidens, they will whisper to each other, beware the ones who look back.”
Source: Tales of Thread: A short story collection
“But Athene was no musician, and nor was she looking to play a tune. The first flute therefore sounded exactly like what it was - a reed that has been severed from it's root”
Source: Stone Blind
“My parents couldn't see the life in my head;
when I wrote it down, they fixed the spelling.”
Source: Averno
“A second chance will never be able
to heal the wound of the first one.”
“Answer her name, and you’re a fool. Answer his, and you’re a liar.”
Source: Destroyer of Light
“Hekate has been given numerous epithets describing her roles and qualities over the thousands of years of her worship. Some of her well known titles include:
Chthonia (‘earthly one’),
Dadouchos (‘torch-bearer’),
Enodia (‘of the ways’),
Kleidouchos (‘key-bearer’),
Kourotrophos (‘child’s nurse’),
Phosphorus (‘light-bearer’),
Propolos (‘companion’),
Propylaia (‘before the gates’),
Soteira (‘saviour’),
Triformis (‘three bodied’),
Trioditis (‘of the three ways’).”
Source: Hekate Liminal Rites: A Study of the rituals, magic and symbols of the torch-bearing Triple Goddess of the Crossroads