Mariela

“Being a woman is always a performance; only the very old and very young are allowed to bow out of it.”
― Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Air You Breathe

“Carved on the temple [at Delphi] were the exhortations "Know yourself" and "Nothing too much," mottoes with a similar meaning: You are only human, so don't try more than you are able (or you will pay the price). A recurring theme in Greek myth is the man or woman who loses sight of human limitations and acts arrogantly and with violence, as if immortal. And pays a terrible price.”
― Barry B. Powell, Classical Myth

“The best times we’ve had on earth are usually with those we love.”
― Van Harden, Life in the Purple Wedge!

“You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something gives you an automatic right to obtain it by whatever means necessary with no regard to the damage it may do. I would be careful if I were you. Friends and objects of deities’ desires dropped like flies. In the end the gods always ended up miserable and alone."
— Kate Daniels”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes