Yasmin

“Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?”
― Sophocles, Electra

“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Tell him, too,” she said, “never to pluck flowers, and to think every bush may be a goddess in disguise.”
― Edith Hamilton, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

“It is the men of this land who are bloodthirsty and they lay their own guilt on the gods.”
― Edith Hamilton, Mythology