greek-mythology

I think I know what he is REALLY doing in there... and thinking about ME while doing it." (continuing) "But when he thinks of me, he thinks: sister! Think: Byblis! BYBLIS! I don't think of him as my brother, I think of him as CAUNUS!

Oh, Narcissus! My heart beats ink for you.A pulse in every line.It's your eyesmy words want to be read by,your kind of mindthey would be understood by,your heartthey'd be felt by,and then you'd feel the same way that I do,if only these words could be read or heard by you.

He's at war with himself. Why doesn't he surrender to his feelings and stop fighting himself? He has hang-ups that I must cut him loose from.

You really are exotic, for boys in my country, they do not have such pectorals. I like yours.

How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken

He has been known to devour men._ __e__ a cannibal?_ Cadmus asked in horror. __ell, not really,_ Daemon replied. __e is a Cyclops. He does not eat his own kind _ just men and only those who challenge him _ he does not hunt them.

I'm a damsel, I'm in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day!

Nosoi?_ Percy planted his feet in a fighting stance. __ou know, I keep thinking, I have now killed every single thing in Greek mythology. But the list never seems to end.___ou haven__ killed me yet,_ I noted.__on__ tempt me.

Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of thing. After all those labors I had to complete for my evil cousin Eurystheus, well...I don't want to be that guy, you know?

In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, Philo borrowed from the Stoics (who had been in like straits in respect of Greek mythology), that great Excalibur which they had forged with infinite pains and skill__he method of allegorical interpretation. This mighty 'two-handed engine at the door' of the theologian is warranted to make a speedy end of any and every moral or intellectual difficulty, by showing that, taken allegorically or, as it is otherwise said, 'poetically' or, 'in a spiritual sense,' the plainest words mean whatever a pious interpreter desires they should mean.

He shook his head again. ____ afraid I don__ feel much of anything these days. Especially not hope. I have no time or energy to waste on false wishes and dreams that won__ come true.___ope isn__ about ignorant wishing._ She surprised even herself with herdefensive backlash. __ope is about believing__elieving there are betterthings in store for us if we just wait for them. It__ about understanding we__e not left completely on our own here, regardless of the way things appear.__amont snorted. __hat ain__ much for a body to go on.___erhaps not, but I reckon it__ enough. Sometimes it__ gotta be, anyhow.Without hope, what would drive one onward?__e was silent for a long moment before he looked up and met her eyes.His own eyes displayed no emotion when he answered in a weary, grimtone, __ear._ He took a drink and fell silent again as she quietly scrutinized him, attempting to discern in his haggard face the thoughts behind what he had said.

...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

This coming from the god who zinged Guinevere and Lancelot while King Arthur was away slaying dragons.

Even Cronus, the Titan who literally had his kids for breakfast, would find these facts hard to swallow.

That is _ your friend?" "Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.

Gods are cold. War, killing, and stabbing each other in the back is really what we do best.

His gaze hits mine with the force of a battering ram. He looks_ appalled. __-I won__ do this. I can___ be with you.

But too much love is poison, especially when that love is not returned