“Some things stay a little bit broken forever—even after they’ve been fixed.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“She had power over the most magnificent forces on Earth, but she still didn’t feel like she had power over the most important thing of all—her own heart.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“Hector, if you get yourself killed again, when I take over Hades I’ll give you a really long time-out in Tartarus,”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“The only time you ever hurt me is when you leave me.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“I could wait my whole life for you, and you’d still be in love with Lucas.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“I chose love—I chose you over everything that was offered to me.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“Yes,” he whispered. “Until the next time you see Lucas. But you already know this. You didn’t just fall in love with him once. You fall in love with him every time you look at him.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“You couldn't lose me, Helen. Not even if you tried," he said, pulling on her arm to bring her closer to him. "And for the record, I aggree with you. I should be more compassionate. I never expected you to think I was perfect. I know I'm not."
"You are to me."
"That's all I care about," Lucas said quietly. "Not-my-cousin Helen.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“You better kill me now, Lucas, because I’m not going to stay away from her. I can’t.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“You must all swear to me that you will protect my sister and her child. If Helen and her line of daughters die, there will be nothing on Earth for me to love,” she said, her eyes falling apologetically on her son, Aeneas, for a moment before they hardened against him. He dropped his head with a wounded look, and Aphrodite turned to Hector.
“As long as my sister and her line of daughters lasts, there will be love in the world. I swear it on the River Styx. But if you let my sister die, Hector of Troy, son of Apollo, I will leave this world and take love itself away with me.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“Hey Orion? Put some pants on, toss her over your shoulder, and carry her off like a man, for the love of Pete!”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“She's too powerful," Matt whispered as his life faded away.
"I'll be there to balance her," Lucas promised.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“Damn it!" Helen swore, turning to face the group. "Does anyone have a pumpkin?”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“She can’t stand the sight of me, Helen. The one girl, the only girl who’s ever really shook me up—and I horrify her.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“Live every day like it's our last day on Earth together," she said, beginning their new motto as she jumped out the window.
"For forever if we can get away with it," Lucas finished, joyfully following her.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“There's always more than one interpretation," Orion said from the doorway. Everyone turned to look at him as he came back into the library. "Face it. The Fates speak in riddles because they don't know what the hell they're talking about. If they did, they'd say something straightforward like, 'Orion is the Tyrant and he wants to eat your brains for breakfast' or whatever."
Hector's shoulders started bouncing up and down with silent laughter. Lucas turned his head away and tried to stuff down a laugh of his own, but he made the mistake of catching Jason's eye.
"Zombie Tyrant," Jason whispered to Lucas, his face turning red with a repressed laugh.
"Huzzah death," Lucas whispered back, cracking up. Apparently, that was some kind of inside joke between the Delos boys because all three of them busted out laughing.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“It was like they were kissing for the first time.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“Look at me," Lucas said suddenly, leaning close and locking eyes with her. "You're the only girl I've ever kissed."
"Liar," Helen said so fast she practially cut him off.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“There was no "eventually", and Helen knew it. Even after she'd touched the water from the River Lethe and couldn't remember her own name, she'd still remembered Lucas. She'd never get over him. Lucas was it for her.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“My whole life I've wondered what it feels like to be loved like that. To be loved more.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“I never really have been, and I’m certain now that I never will be, and you know why? Because it’s impossible for me to love anyone like I love you—and I really tried with Orion.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“Run,” he whispered in her ear. “I love to chase.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“But how could anyone be grateful for what they have if they didn’t know what it was like not to have what they need?”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“Helen leaned down over her husband and ran her lips lightly across his bare shoulder in good-bye. Maybe, someday, she would find him by the River Styx. There, they could wash all their hateful memories away, and walk into a new life together, a life that didn’t have the dirty paw prints of a dozen gods and a dozen kings marring it. Such a beautiful thought.
Helen vowed that she would live a hundred lives of hardship for one life—one real life—with Paris. They could be shepherds, just as they had dreamed once when they had met at the great lighthouse long ago. She’d be anything, really, a shopkeeper, or a farmer, whatever, as long as they were allowed to live their lives and each other freely. She dressed quickly, imagining herself tending a shop somewhere by the sea, hoping that someday this dream would come true.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“She'd created her own hell, and now that she had learned to control her fear, she knew how to create her own paradise.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“Over and over the images rolled behind Helen’s eyes like giant waves. When they stopped, Helen could see everything clearly—like a beach wiped clean after a storm.
She and Lucas were woven from the same cloth, cut apart, and then stitched back together from one cycle to another. The circumstances changed, but they were always intertwined, no matter what.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“So. Ever get the urge to drown anyone?' Ariadne asked.
'No!' Andy replied, horrified.
'Shes just messing with you,' Helen assured her. Her face dropped. 'Seriously, though. What's your stance on strangling?'
'You mean apart from wanting to strangle both of you right now?”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“I really don’t care if he’s my cousin anymore.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
“The last thing Helen thought before she drifted off after him was that she’d slept on a beach like this before with another boy. But this time there was no Helen-shaped dent for her to fit inside.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Goddess
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“Wow. Did I just write that? I didn't want who I am to come between us? How could I not have seen that?”
― Bill Konigsberg, quote from Openly Straight
“And Nate? You kiss like a slobbering dog, you have bad breath, and you wouldn't know how to punch the right buttons on a girl if we came with manuals. Happy Thanksgiving, Jackass.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from The Lonely Hearts Club
“Sometimes I would like to cry. I close my eyes. Why weren't we designed so that we can close our ears as well? (Perhaps because we would never open them.) Is there some way that I could accelerate my evolution and develop earlids?”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Behind the Scenes at the Museum
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Men at Arms: The Play
“Starling tries to seduce Fitz.
"Be with me" she said simply "Just for here. Just for now. With gentleness and friendship. To take...the other away. Give me that much of yourself."
I wanted her. I wanted her with a desperation that had nothing to do with love, and even, I believe, little to do with lust. She was warm and alive and it would have been sweet and simple human comfort. If I could have been with her and arisen from it unchanged in how I thought of myself and what I felt for Molly, I would have done so. But what I felt for Molly was not something that was only for when we were together. I had given Molly that claim to me; I could not resend it just because we were apart for while.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Assassin's Quest
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