Julien

“You will have agriculture,” he declared. “Making flowers and trees grow pretty, making seeds turn into plants for me to smell and trees to bear fruits for me to eat. You will have the laborious work of harvest, hard and tiring.”
I smiled at him. He was so arrogant. He missed completely that he indirectly made me the Goddess of Food, one of the most vital elements of life.”
― Ioanna Papadopoulou

“I didn't care for anything. Every feeling washed over me, slipped out of me, as if I was wearing emotions as clothes and I just undressed from all of them, leaving them in a pile somewhere I could never reach again. All my joy, all my love for my work, my pride, everything was gone.
My daughter wasn't with me anymore and without her, the world had no light. No joy. No life.”
― Ioanna Papadopoulou

“Hermes approached me and examined my face. “He is the King of the Sky, of Olympus. He can do whatever he wants,” he whispered.
“Not this,” I said firmly. “And when you go back up to Olympus, tell him that should he not hurry, all of life will be dead and then the strongest God will not be that of the Sky and Olympus, but Hades in his Underworld. And my daughter will be the most powerful Queen.”
― Ioanna Papadopoulou

“With every step, I sucked back all the life I had given in the soil. This time it was not pain I couldn't control, nor lack of care. It was a clear decision that was sharply made. If my daughter was not to enjoy this world, to see it bright, colourful and blooming, then no one was going to.”
― Ioanna Papadopoulou