Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

from “Semele Recycled”But then your great voice rang out under the skiesmy name!– and all those private namesfor the parts and places that had loved you best.And they stirred in their nest of hay and...

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

This is wrong. Out of this world wrong.But then again, so am I.

God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.

He took her hand. If it were in my power, I would take you to that place from your movie, over the rainbow where dreams come true. But all I can offer is myself, and...

We’re two fools, you know,” he said, looking into her eyes. “I don’t remember the moment I fell in love with you, but I breathe it in every minute, every day.

Do you see those dull stars?” She outlined the formation with her finger.”A pentagram,” whispered Scott.”Yes, but not just any pentagram. Take a look through the telescope.”Scott approached the eyepiece.”They’re not stars!” “What do they...

Persephone is just a name for a spirit of beauty at a certain time in history. I’m sure we could argue a biblical place for her if it matters. Your wife has the name of...

Well, can you tell her that?”He looked down at his feet. “I will. I will.”Guy-speak for, “I plan to keep avoiding her until she gives up.

I said hello to the poodle.

The biblical account of the origin of the cosmos in Genesis, for example, posits that a god created the physical universe particularly with human beings in mind, and so unsurprisingly placed the Earth at the...

Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. True, the writer may have been alone also with Spenser’s golden apples in the...

Oh, yes,” Lin said.

In the beginning – in the early days – they said, “We are making the world better. When we came to this place there was nothing except forest and wild animals and people who ran...

She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him.

You… are the symbol of the revolution that will transform Aryavarta; you are the one who has brought us to this.– Panchali Draupadi

Akheronin sisuksissa on kyyneliä, hammasten kiristystä, utua, tulta, sietämätöntä poltetta, jäätävää kylmyyttä, koiria, karhuja, leijonia ja käärmeitä. Tässä legendassa helvetti on eläin, jonka sisällä on muita eläimiä.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship

The whole school is on these. We’ve had them for awhile now.

Aphrodite: Pfft. That’s not the point. Follow your heart.Percy: But… I don’t know where it’s going. My heart, I mean.

Instantly, the pair fell to groping one other as if each had puff the magic dragon at a rock concert in Woodstock.

The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise and poor Ra lost...

Izzi: Remember Moses Morales? Tom Verde: Who? Izzi: The Mayan guide I told you about. Tom Verde: From your trip. Izzi: Yeah. The last night I was with him, he told me about his father,...

Si Edipo en lugar de hacer morir a la esfinge la hubiera domado y enganchado a su carro para entrar a Tebas, hubiera sido rey sin incesto, sin calamidades y sin exilio.

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.

Chiron reminds us that only through recognising and accepting our inner wounds can we find true healing.

Yet the experience of reading a novel has certain qualities that remind us of the traditional apprehension of mythology. It can be seen as a form of meditation. Readers have to live with a novel...

In the Christian tradition, there is a very decisive problem in distinguishing between the senses of the terms “Jesus” and “Christ.” “Jesus” refers to a historical character; “Christ” refers to an eternal principle, the Son...

There is at least one truth to every myth.

Many more have died of attempting love than victory, and countless numbers hate love more than war. Honor has often been the dear prize awarded to the killers of lovers. The epics of war have...

Did you bring me a rat?””He has no time for rats, George.””No time for rats? That’s just sad.

I’m very at home working with mythology.

When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was — gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.

Quit Believing in Lies and Always Search For the Truth!

It made the woman feel like a thousand seas had come together from all worlds, like faraway lands had been bridged together, and the vastness of the known and the unknown were somehow easier to...

These superhero and mythical stories have, in many cases, replaced Biblical stories as vehicles for communal myths, but they are hardly any better than ancient magical adventures tinged with mythical archetypes and the decidedly unnuanced...

Peace is one thing, revolution is another. You were either impatient or highly optimistic to think one would lead to the other. – Panchali Draupadi.

Charm me into giving you the red M&Ms. They’re my favorite.’I looked Hades in the eyes. ‘Give me the red M&Ms.”Still not good enough.”Give me the damn M&Ms,”‘I snapped.He snickered. ‘That wasn’t very charming.

The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only the State, and the People.- No, Monsieur Robespierre. There is much more than that.

My death granted immortality.With one look, I knew he’d be my undoing…” Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy

You’ll get fired if anyone finds out about us!””So many rules in this century,” Vane muttered.

Myths are, in fact…neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our place in it.

Oh, never and forever aren’t for mortals, love. But we won’t be parted till I know it’s right that we part.

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.

Imagine a perfect world

There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn.

So I’m not allowed to take responsibility for the whole world, but you are, huh?Kees felt the corners of his mouth twitch and his heart squeeze and then melt. …I am bigger, he growled.And she...

I have placed my faith in humanity, but faith in the universal becomes meaningless without faith in the individual. – Panchali Draupadi