Eva Pohler > Quotes

“The most common way people give up their power is by believing they have none.”
― Eva Pohler, The Gatekeeper's Sons

“What’s so funny?” “You freak out when I disappear and reappear, but you expect me to stop time.” She laughed, too. “But why can’t you? You’re a god.” “Like I said, we have more responsibilities than freedoms. I doubt even Zeus could pull that one off.” From high above, a streak of light flew from the sky and struck a boulder not twenty feet from where they lay, sending sparks and smoke and a loud crack in all directions in the echoing valley. The boulder was split in half and was as black as coal. “Holy crap!” Therese cried, falling against Than. “What was that?” “Oops. My apologies,” he muttered, but it didn’t sound like he was talking to her. “I made someone angry.” “That scared me to death. Does that happen often?” “No. Never to me. But this is an exceptional time in my life.”
― Eva Pohler, The Gatekeeper's Sons

“What a strange circumstance she found herself in: baking brownies for a handful of gods from the Underworld.”
― Eva Pohler, The Gatekeeper's Sons

“Sometimes less is more.”
― Eva Pohler, The Mystery Box

“Tell Daddy to turn off the broccoli! It’s probably burned!” Casey shouts something back, maybe that the kitchen cabinets are on fire, but Yvette backs out onto the road and drives off.”
― Eva Pohler, The Mystery Box

“Whenever I drink too much, I get this craving for bread.” He watched me with amusement as I mashed two slices together and ate them, like an eager communicant”
― Eva Pohler, The Mystery Box

“Life isn't fair, but death is."--Hades in The Gatekeeper's Saga”
― Eva Pohler, The Gatekeeper's Sons

“No matter how much one trained, pruned, and fertilized, one could not dominate nature, but only guide it to become what it willed itself to be. No, her mother preferred to spend her time organizing”
― Eva Pohler, The Mystery Box

“Humans need dreams to work through the range of experiences and emotions they deal with during their waking hours.”
― Eva Pohler, The Gatekeeper's Sons

“The advantage of mortality is clear to us, but not to them, and that is why those left behind suffer. They miss the company of their loved ones, but it is the feeling that the deceased no longer exist that hurts the most. This is the cost mortals must pay. Let me put it to you this way: Mortality is better than immortality, but only the immortal have the ability to see this, and there lies both the irony and the cost of human happiness.”
― Eva Pohler, The Gatekeeper's Sons

“Humans have but one spin, one go, one bright moment and then the flame goes out.”
― Eva Pohler, The Gatekeeper's Sons

“Switch jobs with me for a day and then tell me how that’s possible!” “Broken record, bro’! That’s what you are! A scratched disc. I didn’t choose our lots. All I can say is, you need to make the most of yours, and you don’t.” Than”
― Eva Pohler, The Gatekeeper's Sons

“of”
― Eva Pohler, The Gatekeeper's Saga

“No matter how much one trained, pruned, and fertilized, one could not dominate nature, but only guide it to become what it willed itself to be.”
― Eva Pohler, The Mystery Box

“a”
― Eva Pohler, The Mystery Tomb: The Mystery Book Collection

“I’ve got daddy issues.”
― Eva Pohler, Guardians of the Sea

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Eva Pohler, Secrets of the Greek Revival

“He snickered and shook his head. “No one ever wants to find Death.” “Your brother is Death?” “Most”
― Eva Pohler, The Gatekeeper's Sons

“If he was an ass, I would,” Poseidon said. “My father was an ass, and, I’m sorry to say, yours is too.”
― Eva Pohler, Hunting Prometheus: A Greek Mythology Romance

“changed. A few details might, but the big picture always remained the same. Than realized that none of the gods was really all that different from Sisyphus who, each”
― Eva Pohler, The Gatekeeper's Sons

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder,”
― Eva Pohler, The Gatekeeper's Sons

“retrieve”
― Eva Pohler, The Gatekeeper's Sons