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“But, at the end of the day, if you ever think you were wrong about it all, I'm here where I have always been: sitting by the harbor, waiting for you to walk to me again.”

Book:The ones who could never stay

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“And so I find myself thinking that of all the goddesses in this book, the Furies – not in their role of vengeance-goddesses but in the sense of collective, societal shame that they also personify, shame at breaking your word or behaving cruelly and dishonestly – might be the ones I would most like to see restored to a modern pantheon.”

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Book:Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth

Source: Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth

“He is half my soul as the poets say”

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“I may still win my bliss and end my pain, and nothing to lose means only much to gain.”

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Book:Metamorphoses

Source: Metamorphoses

“I should have checked which way the wind was blowing before I set my sails out, to be safe; I set them out too soon; a wind came up and now I have been driven on the rocks; the whole force of the ocean overwhelms me, and I have no way to regain my course.”

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Book:Metamorphoses

Source: Metamorphoses

“The Cyclops' deep voice shook the mountain. "To destroy the snake, you must kill what nourishes it.”

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Book:Hades and Persephone: The Golden Blade

Source: Hades and Persephone: The Golden Blade

“How many times can you say I love you?" He whispered the words softly so that only she could hear them. "A lifetime isn't enough.”

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Book:Hades and Persephone: The Golden Blade

Source: Hades and Persephone: The Golden Blade

“If a woman receives only cruelty or indifference from her husband, father, brother, or son, why should she trust her well-being to any of them?”

Greek Mythology Retellings

Book:Clytemnestra's Bind

Source: Clytemnestra's Bind

“Don’t you dare pity her. She traded a suffering soul for a throne of bones. She exchanged watchful eyes for a court of her own. The seasons of the earth depended on the very breath she took. She had death wrapped around her fingers and spring at her beck and call and the ruler of the heavens tasked with finding her. She turned the world upside down to find freedom. The daughter of flowers escaped her prison made out of roots and thorns and became the queen of death and forged her new home out of shadows and power.”

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Book:The Space Between the Stars and Our Eyes: A Collection of Short Poems

Source: The Space Between the Stars and Our Eyes: A Collection of Short Poems

“Don’t pass on the hurt someone gave you.”

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Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote

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