Lily

“It should have been done by now, the punch, but he seemed to be trapped inside it. He was the boy, the blow, the counter, the flaring anger that drove it all.
This lived in him. This punch, the first time his father had ever hit him, was always being thrown somewhere in his head.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Time is a treacherous mistress. In our youth it flows slow and deep; the days stretch out endlessly. When we are children, a summer lasts for a century. As we age, the flow of time speeds up. Suddenly, a year vanishes with the snap of one’s fingers. How quickly time eludes us, how easily it tricks us.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Bewitching

“She had that terrible split second of panic in which she did not know what shape a man’s rage might take.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Bewitching

“Odysseus longs to recover his own identity, not as a victim of shipwreck or a coddled plaything of a powerful goddess, but as a master of his home and household, as a father and as a husband.”
― Homer, The Odyssey