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“His lips caressed her ear. “Best dance of my entire life.”

Book:Dance of the Heart

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“There must be something in here that can drill through eight miles of solid rock.” He considered a hand drill, a tape measure, a corkscrew, and the iron staff we’d almost died retrieving from Geirrod’s fortress. He threw them all to the floor. “Nothing!” he said in disgust. “Useless junk!” Perhaps you could use your head, Hearthstone signed. That is very hard. “Oh, don’t try to console me, Mr. Elf,” said Thor.”

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Book:The Hammer of Thor

Source: The Hammer of Thor

“Were the stories we told each other true? Who knows? At the best of times, a story is a slippery thing. Perhaps that was why it changed with each telling. Or is that the nature of all stories, the reason for their power?”

Mythology Storytelling Story Mahabharata

Book:The Palace of Illusions

Source: The Palace of Illusions

“Like a god, / I believe in nothing.”

Poetry Mythology Poems Myths

Book:Duende

Source: Duende

“Or, like the thief of fire from heaven, Wilt thou withstand the shock? And share with him, the unforgiven, His vulture and his rock!”

Mythology Poems

Book:The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6 (Part 2): Fancy and Sentiment

Source: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6 (Part 2): Fancy and Sentiment

“Most religions represent artless attempts at philosophy and science, embracing superstitions: ancient guesswork and myths bonded together by the crazy glue of faith.”

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Book:Beyond the Crusades: Christianity's Lies, Laws and Legacy

Source: Beyond the Crusades: Christianity's Lies, Laws and Legacy

“The fifth race is that which is now upon the earth: the iron race. They live in evil times and their nature too has much of evil, so that they never have rest from toil and sorrow. As the generations pass, they grow worse; sons are always inferior to their fathers. A time will come when they have grown so wicket that they will worship power, might will be right to them, and reverence for the good will cease to be.”

Mythology Creation Of The Universe

Book:Mythology

Source: Mythology

“No, dear. As usual, modern folk have it backward. Black is the color of good soil, like the soil of the Nile. You can grow food in black soil. Food is good. Therefore black is good. Red is the color of desert sand. Nothing grows in the desert. Therefore red is evil.”

Mythology

Book:The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“Raised as we are on the mythology of the Old Testament, we might say that an idyll is an image that has remained with us like a memory of Paradise: life in Paradise was not like following a straight line to the unknown; it was not an adventure. It moved in a circle among known objects. Its monotony bred happiness, not boredom.”

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Book:The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Fairest of the deathless gods. This idea the Greeks had of him is best summed up not by a poet, but by a philosopher, Plato: "Love—Eros—makes his home in men's hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs. His greatest glory is that he cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him. For all men serve of him their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.”

History Mythology Aesthetics Ancient Greece

Book:Mythology

Source: Mythology

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