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“It's not our talents that make us safe or dangerous, it's our choices.”
“But you have to admit it is human nature to only really appreciate something if youve worked for it, or if you know you can lose it. How are you going to make the inhabitants of your little heaven ...”
“I am the god of dreams, but not even I would dream of speaking for Hades, Morpheus replied with a mischievous look in his eyes. But if I had to guess, I would say its because he knows how destructi...”
“She'd created her own hell, and now that she had learned to control her fear, she knew how to create her own paradise.”
“But how could anyone be grateful for what they have if they didnt know what it was like not to have what they need?”
“I'm trying to do what's right, but I don't know if there is a such a thing as a right option anymore. Just different kids of wrong."Breakfast narrowed his eyes at her. "Don't get too comfortable wi...”
“You'd claim me?" he asked, hopeful but cautious.She nodded once. "Because I'd never set a monster like you loose in the world.”
“Hello, Lady Witch," he said, breaking into a brazen grin. "Sorry to see you're laid up again.""Occupational hazard," Lily mumbled...”
“Never say never, he said urgently, rolling back on top of her and using all of his unusually heavy mass to press her deep into the cocoon of her little girl bed. The gods love to toy with people wh...”
“The Gods know what it is to be eternal, and they love to toy with mortals who use absolutes.”
“Love is willing to become to villain so that the one who you love can stay a hero.”
“As she climbed a ladder and started boarding up the smashed front windows, Helen realized that some things stay a little bit broken forevereven after theyve been fixed.”
“Havent you learned yet? Someone has to be the villain so everyone else can stay alive.”
“Test. Hades lovely mouth twisted bitterly around the word, as if he could read Helens thoughts and agreed with her. If life is a test, then who do you think grades it?You? she guessed.”
“Only the ones who run are worth catching.”
“She had power over the most magnificent forces on Earth, but she still didn’t feel like she had power over the most important thing of all—her own heart.”
“It’s almost as if we don’t need to live our lives or feel our feelings at all, because someone already told us what the ending was going to be.”
“I’ve always thought that was the lamest argument—that we need some people to be poor in order to remind the rest of us to be grateful. All that really means is that someone has to suffer poverty so...”
“But—I’m leaving.”Not without me.”
“I am the god of dreams, but not even I would dream of speaking for Hades,” Morpheus replied with a mischievous look in his eyes. “But if I had to guess, I would say it’s because he knows how destru...”