Astraea Quotes

“When falls Night, the world will drown in Starlight,” she recited.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“About Justice departing from the shepherds: Justice illustrates a passage from Virgil's Georgics, in which he describes how Astraea, the goddess of Justice, who used to live among mortals during the Golden Age, took refuge among country people, as times degenerated, and at length fled even from them. Rosa shows the cloud-borne goddess departing from a tumbledown farmstead as she hands her sword and scales to a bemused group of peasants, one of whom awkwardly pulls of his hat in respect.”
― Jonathan Scott, Salvator Rosa: His Life and Times

“You have an intrusive habit of touching me.” “You have an inquisitive will to allow it.” He dropped his hand slowly. “Maybe you even desire it.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying