None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.

It’s hard to tell sometimes if Etheny’s stories are true, as you will see, so I will lay down the story as she told it to me to allow you to decide for yourself.

. . .but he'd seen elite warriors go down in flames enough times to struggle with the sovereignty of God yet yield to it

I feel like knowledge is power: If you know how to take care of yourself, you can be a better version of yourself.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom.

Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope.