Thetis And Achilles Quotes & Sayings

In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it's clear this isn't really a safe environment. She's gone down to the River Styx - the dead are being ferried across in the background. There's something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price. — Eula Biss

Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl. — Jeanette Winterson

You never know how the loss will come -- whether he will lose you or you him, but it is a certainty that there will be a shattering involuntary separation. Death is the abandonment caused not by betrayal but by fidelity. — Jeanne Safer

As for the goddess's answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone. — Madeline Miller

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that. — Paul Rudd

Do you know the rest?"Doug asked me expectantly.
"What?The Achilles was a dysfuctional psychopath? Yeah I know that."
"Well, yeah, everyone knows that. I mean the really cool part. About Thetis and Peleus." I shook my head, and he continued, professor-like, "Thetis was a sea mymph, and Peleus was a mortal who loved her. Only, when he went to woo her, she was a real bitch about it."
"How so?"
"She was a shape-shifter."
I nearly dropped the book. "What?"
Doug nodded. "He approached her, and she turned into all sorts of shit to scare him off - wild animals, forces of natures, monsters, whatever."
"What ... what'd he do?"
"He held on. Grabbed her and wouldn't let go through all of those terrible transformations. No matter what she turned into, he just held on. — Richelle Mead

The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies. — Herbert Spencer

The chicken is a little dry and/or you've ruined my life. — Ben Lerner

His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any other, a favourite pudding after the monotony of dinner. — Gustave Flaubert

I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation. — Arielle Dombasle

Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment. — Ahmad Shamlou

Goosing my own Maverick. — Caitlin Moran

I looked into his eyes, and I saw so much more than just him. I saw the pain, the triumphs, the love, the horror, the sorrow, the joy, but most of all, the person I was in love with. There was so much more than just him in the depths of his eyes. — Me

There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response. — Rand Paul

There was something delightfully intimate about the relationship between predator and prey. — Nenia Campbell

Maybe it wouldn't hurt if I kiss you, he said. Maybe it's only if you kiss me - — Maggie Stiefvater

It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores. — Publilius Syrus