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“I look down and there is the goddess of the hunt herself, reclining backwards upon the surface of the pool while next to her a maid… let us say she is combing Artemis’s hair, for decency’s sake.”
― Ithaca
― Ithaca
“Talented with both sword and bow, she could loose two arrows mere moments apart and still hit targets some distance from one another with perfect accuracy. Her arms rippled with muscle as if carved by the hand of a god. Her long hair, worn in a single braid down her back and so dark it was almost black, was a vivid contrast to the azure of her eyes and the curvature of her pink lips.”
― Queens of Themiscyra
― Queens of Themiscyra
“She stood lit by the dying sun, her face smeared with grime and blood, her eyes wild and wide, and yet never in all her life had Penthesilea seen a more beautiful woman.”
― Queens of Themiscyra
― Queens of Themiscyra
“She could hear it now, that carefree, careless laughter of boys who know the world is theirs to waste.”
― Daughters of Sparta
― Daughters of Sparta
“It is not that female characters in the modern novel are characterizations of bad or limited people—although, incidentally, they almost always are—but that they are badly drawn, because the writers flatly refuse to apply the same complex of literary artifice in their character realizations to both males and females—out of habits that begin as a response to some terror that human individuation would make the female characters equal to the males.”
― Hogg
― Hogg
erika’s 2025 Year in Books
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