“That’s the thing about bullies, isn’t it?” Aisha said, catching her breath after all that speedy flying and deep roaring. “They make you think there’s no point trying to stand up to them. But when you do, you discover you’re actually
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“The first rule of men, Persephone, is that they’re all idiots.”
― A Touch of Ruin
― A Touch of Ruin
“No one had ever shouted at me in my life: my mother with her quiet voice, my gentle father. But I found something bitter inside myself, something of that winter blown into my heart: the sound of my mother coughing, and the memory of the story the way they'd told it in the village square so many times, about a girl who made herself a queen with someone else's gold, and never paid her debts.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“I didn't really understand what mothers were, because mine was in a tree, but I knew they were very good things and you were very angry and sad if you lost them.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“Zeus sighed heavily. 'I wish, all those years ago, Prometheus hadn't persuaded me to make mankind,' he said. 'I knew it was a mistake.”
― Troy
― Troy
“No one escapes a time in life when the arrow of sorrow, of anger, of despair pierces the heart. For many of us, there is the inevitable need to circle the wound. It is often such a surprise to find it there, in us, when we had assumed arrows so painful only landed in the hearts of other people. Some of us spend decades screaming at the archer. Or at least for longer periods than are good for us. How to take the arrow out of the heart? How to learn to relieve our own pain? That is the question.”
― Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
― Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
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