“Charm me into giving you the red M&Ms. They’re my favorite.'
I looked Hades in the eyes. 'Give me the red M&Ms.'
'Still not good enough.'
'Give me the damn M&Ms,"'I snapped.
He snickered. 'That wasn’t very charming.”
― Kaitlin Bevis, quote from Persephone
“Families think they know what’s best for you. Your friends let you figure that out for yourself.”
― Kaitlin Bevis, quote from Persephone
“Reality has teeth and claws. It's rarely pretty and never fair. Haven't you figured that out yet?”
― Kaitlin Bevis, quote from Persephone
“There’s something you need to know, little goddess,” he whispered, turning his face so his breath tickled my ear. It felt really good. He smiled, and my heart froze. It wasn’t a nice smile. “I am much stronger than you. You cannot use your little tricks on me. I am immune, you stupid child. I’ll forgive this one transgression, but if you ever try to manipulate my affections again, I will not be so accommodating. Do you understand?”
― Kaitlin Bevis, quote from Persephone
“In practice, I always get you to give me the red M&M’s.”
“That was a device to let you know when you were using enough charm to affect a human,” he snapped. “I got it from a human parenting manual. I didn’t think you were stupid enough to believe you could use your charm against me.”
My eyes flashed. I remembered mother telling me the only way she’d found to potty train me was giving me M&M’s. I was not flattered by the comparison.”
― Kaitlin Bevis, quote from Persephone
“At my disbelieving look he sighed again. I thought about offering him an inhaler, but he continued.”
― Kaitlin Bevis, quote from Persephone
“Look I'm not the God of Poetry or Good Descriptions, okay? - Hades”
― Kaitlin Bevis, quote from Persephone
“I wanted a guy like Orpheus. Orpheus has gone through Tartarus to rescue his wife—that was love. Hades probably didn't even know the meaning of the word love.”
― Kaitlin Bevis, quote from Persephone
“Just get him started on what he thinks is best for souls. He's all about making everyone feel right at home. Oh gods! He reads these stupid psychology books and just spouts off random psycho-babble. It's awful! - Cassandra”
― Kaitlin Bevis, quote from Persephone
“I've been around since the beginning of time, and I’ve never been afraid until I met you.”
― Kaitlin Bevis, quote from Persephone
“I could feel someone watching me. Eyes boring a hole in the back of my neck, crawling over my skin.”
― Kaitlin Bevis, quote from Persephone
“Stars are tragic. Most of the stars are nothing but reminders of love gone horribly wrong, or men challenging the gods.”
― Kaitlin Bevis, quote from Persephone
“The past, present, and future; the young, middle-aged, and old; and the maiden, mother, and crone in one. Good times. I”
― Kaitlin Bevis, quote from Persephone
“Hades kissed me, hands cupping my face. It was a soft kiss, but not a quick one. With regret I broke the kiss. “Unfortunately,”
― Kaitlin Bevis, quote from Persephone
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“My darling, my child, my connoisseur of sesquipedalian words and convoluted ideas and meandering sentences and baroque images, while the sun is asleep and the moon somnambulant, while the stars bathe us in their glow from eons ago and light-years away, while you are comfortably nestled in your blankets and I am hunched over in my chair by your bed, while we are warm and safe and still for the moment in this bubble of incandescent light cast by the pearl held up by the mermaid lamp, you and I, on this planet spinning and hurtling through the frigid darkness of space at dozens of miles per second, let’s read.”
― Ken Liu, quote from The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“A TELEPHONE YOWLED in Chris’s ear, and he scrabbled at his side for a sword that wasn’t there.”
― K.M. Weiland, quote from Dreamlander
“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.”
― quote from The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
“I believe in nature, in science, in jazz, in dancing. And I believe in people. In their resilience, in their goodness. This is my credo; this is my hymn. Maybe it's not enough for heaven, and maybe I'm even wrong. But if I can walk through the fire and, with blistered skin, still have faith in better days? I have to believe that's good enough.”
― Emery Lord, quote from The Names They Gave Us
“It’s a bittersweet road we parents travel. We start with total commitment to a small, helpless human being. Over the years we worry, plan, comfort, and try to understand. We give our love, our labor, our knowledge, and our experience—so that one day he or she will have the inner strength and confidence to leave”
― Adele Faber, quote from How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
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