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“You might survive,” Io told Edei, “but tolerating wickedness seems to me just a slow kind of death.”

Greek mythology will always hold my interest. Even so, this one surprised me a bit. I couldn’t it down. For me, it was so entertaining, juvenile, but completely enthralling. This book won’t be for everyone, but it is a good time if it is your thing.

The similarities among earthlings, dead or alive, outnumbered their differences.

I started this at bedtime to wind down, terrible idea. This book is fantastic, haunting and beautiful. I am uneasy. I don’t want to put it down.

“Maybe, sometimes, wants felt like needs. Because the alternative hurt too bad.”

“After all, if she had done only what a girl was supposed to do until now, she would have no power, no acclaim, only an obscure existence as the subject of someone else’s dominion. The path to God wasn’t laid for women like her. It was laid on their backs.”

"You poked it with a stick?"
"No!" I said. "Well. Yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick.”

“She was destined for lesser things. Tears seized her throat, and she ruthlessly forced them back. She might have failed like a woman, but at least no one was going to catch her crying like one.”

“Withered fingers beckoned her to the floor, and Sciona stepped into the circle toward her destiny—or toward the end of everything.”

“You know we’re not running from oblivion. We’re running toward hope.”

“The point of revenge wasn’t to heal. The point was that the exhilaration, however temporary, drowned out the hurt.”

You guys this book is so good and so quotable I couldn’t pick just one. Here are my favorites so far.

“The moon is different here. He meant he wanted to go home.”

“Hate was its own kind of fire and if you had nothing else, it kept you warm.”

“Who decided who counted as human?”

“She was just constitutionally unable to keep quiet.”

“You always need permission.”

I’m struggling with the audiobook narrator change but I am starting to get back into the story.

“We suffer so everyone else can smile.”

“They believe in a singular and all-powerful deity, which means they cannot accept the truth of other gods. And when nations start to believe that other beliefs lead to damnation, violence becomes inevitable.”

“She’d spent too much of her childhood learning to tell when someone was in a dangerous mood.”

““You spend your whole life chasing after some illusion you think is real, only to realize you’re a damned fool, and that if you reach any further, you’ll drown.””

“Do you trust me?” “No. But that’s irrelevant.””

“I am a mortal who has woken up, and there is power in awareness.””

“Youth, Rin thought, was an amplification of beauty. It was a filter; it could mask what one was lacking, enhance even the most average features. But beauty without youth was dangerous…”

“But the misery she felt now was a good misery. This misery she reveled in, because she had chosen it for herself.”

“Sadness is like stones that stack inside you, making it harder to move. Ignorance is my self-preservation tonic, and I’ll swear by it until I die.”

“”From the gods comes the gift of life,” I whisper the Yoruba. “To the gods, that gift must be returned.””