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“This is the last spear. It is the seed of Paikea and we must return it to the land.”

Book:The Whale Rider

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The Whale Rider

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“Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heaven vouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks that he shall come to no harm hereafter, and even when the blessed gods bring sorrow upon him, he bears it as he needs must, and makes the best of it; for God almighty gives men their daily minds day by day.”

Mythology Greek Odyssey Ulysses Homer

Book:The odyssey

Source: The odyssey

“No one, none of us have rights. There is no destiny. We have responsibilities to ourselves and each other. We have responsibilities and the choice whether or not we live up to those responsibilities.”

Horror Mythology Urban Fantasy Novellas Post Mythic

Book:Further Than Fate: five tales of post-mythic darkness

Source: Further Than Fate: five tales of post-mythic darkness

“Standing at the window, reading the menu of Obediah's services, the Minotaur wishes he could believe in what she has to offer: a promise woven into deep lines of his palm, some turn of fate told by a card. But faith is a nebulous thing and charlatans a dime a dozen; it's always been that way. The Minotaur both envies and pities the devout.”

Mythology Psychics Superstition

Book:The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break

Source: The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break

“He finally understood...the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies to do with flight—a desire for the magic of the sky, for something bigger than their feet treading the earth.”

Understanding Mythology Desires Gods

Book:Genealogy

Source: Genealogy

“Instantly, the pair fell to groping one other as if each had puff the magic dragon at a rock concert in Woodstock.”

Love Humor Mythology Valentines Day

Book:Cupid's Academy: The Miseducation of Mergatroyd, Love god in Training

Source: Cupid's Academy: The Miseducation of Mergatroyd, Love god in Training

“I do tasks for the gods, usually things like tracking down rare items or taking someone safely to a destination." D'Molay the Freeman Tracker”

Mythology Fantasy Books Mystery Novels

Book:City of the Gods: Forgotten

Source: City of the Gods: Forgotten

“When she opened her door, Levi was sitting in the hallway, his legs bent in front of him, hunched forward on his knees. He looked up when she stepped out. “I’m such an idiot,” he said. Cath fell between his knees and hugged him. “I can’t believe I said that,” he said. “I can’t even go nine hours without seeing you.”

Love Romance Romantic Cute Apology Dreamy Fangirl Cute Moments Guyswelove

Book:Fangirl

Source: Fangirl

“She'd hardly been awake, much less alive.”

Death Loss Grief Fiction Mythology Novella

Book:Train Dreams

Source: Train Dreams

“Personne ne l’emportera d’ici, se dit-il. Si elle partait, j’en deviendrais fou. J’en deviendrais fou.”

Fantasy Mythology Fairy Tale Short Stories Folkfore

Book:Muneeb et Samiah: Fables et Contes de l’Afrique médiévale

Source: Muneeb et Samiah: Fables et Contes de l’Afrique médiévale

“U-2200 is a heavily worn, approximately egg-shaped 1.07-meter-tall monolith of tenasserite limestone inhabited by Gua, a non-corporeal entity that claims to be the prehistoric Johorean god of forgetting how to ride a bicycle. [...] U-2200 claims to have dwelled within the stone since its carving, more than 5,000 years ago. Exactly what U-2200 did between that time and the invention of the first actual bicycle in the 19th century is a matter of some debate. Consensus among Organization academics is that U-2200 did nothing, and probably did not exist in its present form. U-2200, however, claims that the bicycle has been invented dozens of times by cultures in all parts of the globe over the course of the past 5,000 years, only for U-2200 to engulf, consume, and negate all human knowledge not only of the riding of bicycles but of the mechanism of the bicycle, before lapsing back into dormancy. It calls this “the Bicyclecycle.”

Mythology Surreal Dark Humor Speculative Fiction Absurdism Worldbuilding Unreliable Narrator Ancient Artifact Bureaucracy Satire Secret Organization

Book:There Is No Antimemetics Division

Source: There Is No Antimemetics Division

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