Lyra

“If I could use every skill I learned from the back-alley criminals, I would have.
How dare he speak of her. How dare he speak of lost children when he made a choice to lose his, when I would have taken my own life a thousand times over to save her.
I would've undertaken ask his labors without blinking for even a chance of saving mine, when he did them to forget his.”
― Phoenicia Rogerson, Herc

“Loving people. That's a fucking flaw if you want to be a hero. Being willing to give your life for someone is all well and good but it means sooner or later you'll give your life for someone and that'll be the end of the story. Heroes can't afford for that to happen.”
― Phoenicia Rogerson, Herc

“At least you are not dead," Clytemnestra says.
Neither Tyndareus nor any other Spartan would agree that a life with shame is better than a glorious death, but Clytemnestra doesn't care.
She would rather live. Glory is something she can earn later.”
― Constanza Casati

“You have always been the worst of my children,’ he said. ‘Be sure to not dishonor me.’
‘I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when
you count your children, leave me out.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe