Alexa

‘Mortals,’ he sighed. He rested his cheek against my hair. ‘They are often so stubborn, so determined not to see reason. Everyone should live as easily as we do on Naxos, instead of making these endless traps in which to ensnare themselves. They are the cause of their own suffering, and yet they will never see it. They will rage against the gods

My mother told me once that I had a beautiful voice. I was singing along with Olivia Newton-John in the car, and I had been trying to get her to say that. I wasn’t just absentmindedly singing, I’d been going for the compliment. My voice is nothing special, but when your mother tells you something about yourself, even if you’ve coaxed it out of her,

So Medusa had to pay for Poseidon’s act. It made no sense at all, and then I tilted my head and saw it with the logic of the gods. The pieces slid into place: a terrible picture when viewed from our mortal perspective, like the beauty of a spider’s web that must look so horrifying to the fly.

-Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

She loved a story. She loved a mystery. She could make any little incident intriguing… I wanted her and no one else to tell the story of how she died.

-Lily King, Writers & Lovers

She liked talking and Ove liked keeping quiet. Retrospectively Ove assumed that was what people meant when they said that people were compatible.

-Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Loving someone is like moving into a house,” Sonja used to say. “At first you fall in love with all the new things, amazed every morning that all this belongs to you, as if fearing that someone would suddenly come rushing in through the door to explain that a terrible mistake had been made, you weren’t actually supposed to live in a wonderful

“You like reading?” she asked him brightly.

I’ve shook his head with some insecurity, but it didn’t seem to concern her very much. She just smiled, said that she loves books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realized that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved