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“Myths are the stories we tell ourselves about how we behave, when we don’t know how it is we behave or even why.”

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“The ancient poems, written before the Sundering, said that the sun-- the true sun, chariot of Helios-- was so bright it blinded all who looked upon it. They spoke of rosy-fingered Dawn, who painted the east in shades of pink and gold. They praised the boundless blue dome of the sky.”

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Book:Cruel Beauty

Source: Cruel Beauty

“I picked up the glass and swirled it, staring at the dark liquid. The thought of eating and drinking here suddenly filled me with dread. Persephone had tasted the food of the underworld just once, and she was never able to leave. But then, I was never meant to leave here anyway. "It's not laced with blood or poison." His smile flashed; apparently his amusement at my fears was inexhaustible. "I may be a demon, but I'm not Tantalus or Mithridates." "That's a pity," I muttered, and sipped my wine. "I wouldn't mind Mithridates. Then I'd get a quick death or a useful immunity.”

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Book:Cruel Beauty

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“Can the sun find its match in anything but the moon? Can the heavens lose interest in the earth?" Hades pulled away from her and stroked her cheek. "Can death exist without life?”

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Book:Destroyer of Light

Source: Destroyer of Light

“The only way Addie knows how to keep going is to keep going forward. They are Orpheus, she is Eurydice, and every time they turn back, she is ruined.”

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Author:V.E. Schwab

“I believe it is not the artist that chooses the muse—but rather, the muse who chooses the artist. The Muses are the original inventors, whilst we humans are their vessels.”

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Book:The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey

Source: The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey

“Now they made all secure in the fast black ship, and, setting out the wine bowls all a-brim, they made libation to the gods, the undying, the ever-new, most of all to the grey-eyed daughter of Zeus. And the prow sheared through the night into the dawn. (Translation by Robert Fitzgerald 1961)”

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“Somos cada vez mais, os defeitos que temos, não as qualidades”

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Source: A Viagem do Elefante

“These hapless lovers were probably not always mere myths, and these legends which traced their spilt blood in the purple bloom of the violet, the scarlet stain of the anemone, or the crimson flush or the rose were no idle poetic emblem of youth and beauty fleeting as the Summer flowers.”

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Book:The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion: Volume VIII or XII

Source: The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion: Volume VIII or XII

“My brother is the soft one. He’ll give you sunshine and sonnets. But me? I’ll use the moonshine to track you by night, and my bow and arrow to pierce your heart, and take your life.”

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Author:Cambria Covell

“Sisyphus taught me one truth that mortals aren't supposed to know— that the gods need mankind far more than the mankind need the gods. The cosmos is a paradox. Gods created the mortals, and mortals created the gods.”

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Source: Receiver of Many