18 quotes found
“Fear cant be reasoned with. Neither can hate. Theyre like love. Theyre almost identical emotions. Thats why Ares and Aphrodite like each other. Their twin sons Fear and Panic were spawned from bo...”
“Because you are the superhero fledgling. Im just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.”
“Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite”
“I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus... Aphrodite to the exte...”
“Battles like that . . . My voice lowered. They look like they come down to one person or one action in one big, flashy moment, but they dont. Major victories come in inches. Each action, each sacri...”
“Aphrodite just kept smiling.Because she was just doing what a goddess does-the same way that a tornado rips houses apart or a fire burns down a forest.”
“If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddesss playground.”
“I believe in Aphrodite, I believe in insane thinkers, I believe in roaring free-spirits, I believe in full-throated poetry, I believe in feverish sex and moony love with all its facets.”
“The two creatures were sexless. But he of Malacandra was masculine (not male); she of Perelandra was feminine (not female). Malacandra seemed to him to have the look of one standing armed, at the r...”
“But whence came this curious difference between them? He found that he could point to no single feature wherein the difference resided, yet it was impossible to ignore. One could try - Ransom has t...”
“The love-goddess gestured to the fish of the lake below her and they gleefully gave up their scales to clothe her in a glimmering gown. The very ends of her toes dangled like cherries over the wate...”
“Exquisitely painful, isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you.”
“Fear can’t be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They’re like love. They’re almost identical emotions. That’s why Ares and Aphrodite like each other. Their twin sons – Fear and Panic – were spawned f...”
“Battles like that . . .” My voice lowered. “They look like they come down to one person or one action in one big, flashy moment, but they don’t. Major victories come in inches. Each action, each sa...”
“Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.”
