Molly Tullis > Quotes

“He’d bring that joy to her surface or would die trying; there was no reason for her to keep it so locked away. She wasn’t just entitled to respect. Hecate was entitled to joy, too. To laughter. To warmth. She was capable of it, but something had locked it away, entrenched it deep within her, likely hidden behind a curse of its own.”
― Molly Tullis, Lost to Witchcraft

“Love, that fickle thing of mortal men and his fellow Olympians’ favorite weakness, was about to prove itself even more swift-footed than Hermes.”
― Molly Tullis, The Trickster's Heart

“I’ll take whatever you give me, Goddess.” Aeëtes looked at her, a brow raised in challenge. “But don’t get it confused. I want it all. I’ll take it all.”
― Molly Tullis, Lost to Witchcraft

“What was freedom if you locked yourself away from feeling? If your heart was solid as stone and barricaded from affection, were you safe or in a prison of your own design? Were you the architect of your own suffering if you refused to feel or love? Let yourself be loved?”
― Molly Tullis, Lost to Witchcraft

“It’s the way of strong women to be prepared for the day that a man can’t accept their strength anymore.”
― Molly Tullis, Consort of Darkness

“It doesn’t have to be so black and white, Nyx.” “Darkness and light always are.”
― Molly Tullis, Consort of Darkness

“What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest." - Rumi”
― Molly Tullis, Consort of Darkness

“Hecate kept her heart bound in a spell all its own—where there was no space for freedom.”
― Molly Tullis, Lost to Witchcraft

“How much can a heartbreak define you? What does strength mean if you are crippled by the loss of love?”
― Molly Tullis, Consort of Darkness

“I love you. Regardless of day and night, of darkness and of light, no matter what the gods say, or the Fates decide… I love you. Whatever you believe my motivations to be, know this, I did it all for the love of you.”
― Molly Tullis, Consort of Darkness

“Hermes did not become the trickster. He was born into it—but the greatest trick he ever played was one on himself.”
― Molly Tullis, The Trickster's Heart

“The games only revealed the parts of ourselves that we wished had remained hidden. Our response to the ruse unveiled bits of our souls that should have remained in the dark. There was nothing but truth in the hands of the trickster—truths so blinding, they could block out the sun.”
― Molly Tullis, The Trickster's Heart

“I trust you.” Hercules smiled. The admission caused Hermes’s chest to explode in a warm, gooey sensation.”
― Molly Tullis, The Trickster's Heart

“What’s happening?!” Aeëtes was shouting, squinting as he tried to see through the storm unleashing around them. Hecate turned to him, her mouth twisted up into a grim smile. “We’re dragging this bitch down to hell.”
― Molly Tullis, Lost to Witchcraft

“For what it’s worth, I love you, pet…but this is why no one can ever fall in love with a trickster.”
― Molly Tullis, The Trickster's Heart

“That’s because you’re the Goddess of dogs, Hecate.” “Well, they listen to me when I tell them to sit down and bark.” “I would, too.” Aeëtes winked at her and stood straighter, pushing himself off the railing. As he passed Hecate, he leaned down until his lips barely brushed the shell of her ear. “I could be a very good boy.”
― Molly Tullis, Lost to Witchcraft

“But you’d rather jump overboard than hear me tell you that I’m enamored with you. That I’ve been nearly driven to obsession over you since the second I saw you in that clearing. That every brief moment we’ve spent together, I have wanted to claw my own heart out and give it to you so you can dissect it and cure me of this wildness.”
― Molly Tullis, Lost to Witchcraft

“There is no one wiser than the fool.” Pelias countered quickly. “No one who is more open, more sage, more genuine than the person who lets themselves be foolish. Life is short, then you die,” Pelias chuckled to himself. “Well, some of us anyway. Alas. Let yourself be the fool for once, dear goddess, and you’d be surprised who will catch you.”
― Molly Tullis, Lost to Witchcraft

“It has nothing to do with her. It’s only because it’s wrong. It has nothing to do with her; it’s the situation.”
― Molly Tullis, The Romanov Oracle

“Do go on. You’re making such an eloquent point that I’m enraptured with your cause,” Hecate deadpanned, her gaze nearly withering a man as ancient as time itself. Erebus shook his head.”
― Molly Tullis, Consort of Darkness

“It was loneliness that was the true void. Only hers came without the darkness, not in it.”
― Molly Tullis, Consort of Darkness

“There was a similar loneliness in Hercules’s eyes that made Hermes want to rip out his own and show it to Hercules to see if they matched.”
― Molly Tullis, The Trickster's Heart

“Sorry.” Hermes coughed awkwardly. “Weak ankles.” Hermes went to detangle himself from Hercules’s grasp, but Hercules only tightened his grip.”
― Molly Tullis, The Trickster's Heart

“The prettiest sunsets always happened when Nyx was in a good mood, and she stopped to chat with Helios; it always made for the best colors. Erebus let a soft smile cross his face as he looked up at the clouds. Now, you’re just showing off, my darling.”
― Molly Tullis, Consort of Darkness

“I promise, she’s taking her time getting her revenge and is going to spend a few days getting wine-drunk with her acolytes, castrating rapists, and adopting stray dogs. Girl stuff.”
― Molly Tullis, The Trickster's Heart

“Nyx could surrender her soul and every bit of her tension to him, knowing that he would tend to it with care until she had the strength to pick it up again. Such was the burden of powerful women and the demands the world thrust upon them, the price for daring to be both feminine and strong.”
― Molly Tullis, Consort of Darkness

“I don’t just want it, Aeëtes.” There was desperation in her voice, but he nearly ran out of the room before she could finish. “I need it. I need you. This will ruin me…but I have no intention of being saved.”
― Molly Tullis, Lost to Witchcraft

“As old as the universe, only ever been with one woman—and I still find a way to mess it up.”
― Molly Tullis, Consort of Darkness

“Hades had taken to the Underworld like Poseidon to the sea and Zeus to patricide.”
― Molly Tullis, Consort of Darkness

“You are my wound and my cauterizing blade. The look in your eyes is my hurt and the smile on your face is my fix. Do you not get that?”
― Molly Tullis, Lost to Witchcraft