“The urge to fall [in love] was utterly new and made her [Athena] dizzy. He [Odysseus] could catch her and hold her up. She knew he could.
If this is how Aphrodite feels every day, it's no wonder she's such an idiot.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Antigoddess
“This is what men risk so much for; this shiver, this acute heat and desire. This is what they think eternity feels like.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Antigoddess
“For the record I don't believe in Fate. I believe that the pieces have been placed. The ending hasn't been written yet.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Antigoddess
“The Mustang growled into reverse, aiming straight for the old lady.
Cassandra would have winced, even if she had been the most evil old woman on the face of the planet. Even if she had been granny-Hitler, she would have winced at the idea of running her down. But the thing standing in the road looked nothing like an old woman anymore.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Antigoddess
“The blood inside her hands hurt and felt slushy, like if you tore them open it'd look like a red ICEE.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Antigoddess
“Fate was the only lesson a god needed to learn. It was their only hard limit.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Antigoddess
“And thus was their burial of Apollo, god of the sun.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Antigoddess
“I don’t either. It was just something to say. Anyway, if you don’t remember it, then it isn’t much use.” He gave her a piercing look, making sure nothing was flooding back. “Might as well call it ‘just a dream.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Antigoddess
“Gods are cold. War, killing, and stabbing each other in the back is really what we do best.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Antigoddess
“He was a god, he said, and always had been. Or at least, that was what they used to be called. What they were now, he didn’t know. It seemed like the wrong word when he was so limited, so much less than he’d been before.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Antigoddess
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“Why. Why. Why. WHY.
The question my life had become.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Fall for Anything
“ليس اكتمال التاريخ الانساني هو ما حلمت به، ولا إلغاء المستقبل، لا، لا، ما تمنيته هو الاختفاء الكلي للبشر مع مستقبلهم وماضيهم، مع بدايتهم ونهايتهم، مع كل فترة وجودهم، مع ذاكرتهم برمَّتها، مع نيرون ونابليون، مع بوذا والمسيح، تمنيتُ الفناء الكلي لشجرة متجذّرة في بطنٍ صغير بلا سرة لأول امرأة حمقاء لم تكن تعرف ما تفعله، وأي أهوال كلفنا جماعها البائس الذي لم يمنحها أية متعة بالتأكيد”
― Milan Kundera, quote from The Festival of Insignificance
“Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.”
― Voltaire, quote from Candide: or, Optimism
“Did I really feel so powerless in my own life that I had to take this poor, vulnerable creature's to compensate”
― Graeme Cameron, quote from Normal
“از همین می ترسم. «به کسی یا چیزی عادت می کنی، اون وقت اون چیز یا اون کس قالت می گذاره.» اون وقت دیگه هیـچ چیـز برات باقی نمی مونه”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum
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