Alice Abyss > Quotes

“She looked up at Hekate with blossoming purple eyes, long lashes, and a rosy luster radiating from her skin. Her name was Nephele. She had fifty sisters who lived in the sea. She was the only one who took to the sky. Though she lived in the sky, she kept her fishtail. Cirrus wisps of hair floated from her head, as if she were still underwater.”
― Alice Abyss, Pharmakides

“This incarnation promised her a dance with Poseidon.”
― Alice Abyss, Pharmakides

“I wondered how she learned to walk, for it was so strange. She seemed to me like a wave, or the tides, moving in tandem with the moon.”
― Alice Abyss, Pharmakides

“Stars shone for both scholars and paupers, pharmakides and priestesses, gods and mortals. They shone, but they never went backwards. They never vanished. Sometimes they’d flicker, like a candle, but they’d never be blown out completely.

Not until that fateful morning when Medousa bubbled up from the sea.”
― Alice Abyss, Pharmakides