Mythology Fiction Quotes

“It’s been my observation" I said, “that you humans are more than the sum of your history. You can choose how much of your ancestry to embrace. You can overcome the expectations of your family and your society. What you cannot do, and should never do, is try to be someone other than yourself–Piper McLean.”
― Rick Riordan, The Burning Maze

“Do not listen to your enemy...look at them. It will tell you everything.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I would be Medusa, if it came to it, I resolved. If the gods held me accountable one day for the sins of someone else, if they came for me to punish a man's actions, I would not hide away like Pasiphae. I would wear that coronet of snakes and the world would shrink from me instead.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“Survival was no longer proof of strength.
It was proof of cost.”
― Akshat Goyal, Chronicles of Balance: Volume I: Rise of the Sovereign

“Myths are just stories about truths we've forgotten”
― Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer

“Anyone who believes mythology is fiction does not understand mythology.”
― Priscilla Vogelbacher, Deities & Dragons

“Sometimes, the greatest battles are fought not on fields of war, but within the heart, where love and duty clash in a desperate struggle for dominion." - Kritikan Proverb”
― Ashwin Chitransh, Agni Origins: Rise of Asura: (Book 1 in the Agni Series)

“No matter how much you wish things could be as they were, you cannot change what is to what was.”
― Medusa to her Seeker, 12/22/2024

“You don’t want them mindless. You want them mindful.”
― Medusa to her Seeker, 12/24/2024

“I think fixing things counts as art. There's something beautiful about having enough patience and compassion to mend, rather than simply replace.”
― LJR Skylerman, What Lorkan Is: Book One In The 'Blue Blood' Trilogy

“What the author put down on the page was just part of it. Characters, settings and plots from their creative minds were brought to life every time someone new read the words. Imaginary lives were created. Mythical worlds were explored. Fantastical creatures existed for new readers to experience.”
― Melissa Bourbon, Shadows on the Page

“Pienso que nos vencerán."- No había nada en su voz que evidenciara miedo.
"¿Pero de todas formas pelearéis?
"Por supuesto"- Alzó la mirada hacia mi con desaprobación.
"Pero si no podéis ganar..."
"Si no peleamos, (...) nos matarán de todas maneras. Morimos peleando o morimos ocultándonos. ¿Qué elegirías?”
― Adrienne Young, Sky in the Deep

“Si muero mañana. Tú cuidarás de Iri."
Asintió. No iba a decir que eso no iba a pasar porque ambos habíamos visto caer a demasiados compañeros del clan como para saber que era una posibilidad.”
― Adrienne Young, Sky in the Deep

“Domani io permarrò. Tanto basta", come la stessa Akropolis ricordava costantemente, con quel misto di antico e moderno, di arcaici stucchi e scuro metallo, le alte colonne di pietra e le tubature di rame dal diametro gigantesco che fuoriuscivano come flebo da un corpo languente.”
― Niccolò R.V. Toderi, Verbum. Custos Verbi

“But the Underworld is... well, it's like a second home for me. And it hurts to hear you talk about it like it's evil. Death isn't evil. It's just...death.”
― Rick Riordan; Mark Oshiro

“But the Underworld is... well, it's like a second home for me. And it hurts to hear you talk about it like it's evil. Death isn't evil. It's just...death.”

― Rick Riordan; Mark Oshiro in The Sun and the Star: A Nico Di Angelo Adventure”
― Rick Riordan; Mark Oshiro

“You are my Hound of Fate, the will made tangible, the wild fury and chaos held at bay, waiting to be unleashed. Passion to be honed into the brushstrokes of reality’s paint and blood upon the Grand Work.”
― Rain Harlow, Goddess Descension

“The greatest mysteries are often buried not beneath the earth, but within ourselves." - Asura proverb”
― Ashwin Chitransh, Agni Origins: Rise of Asura: (Book 1 in the Agni Series)

“The weight of a secret can be heavier than the burden of truth." - Sura Proverb”
― Ashwin Chitransh

“A curse upon you and myself!" - Indrajeet”
― Ashwin Chitransh, Agni Origins: Rise of Asura: (Book 1 in the Agni Series)

“Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. Even gods and demons...”
― Robert J. Brodey

“You are young, Wrath, a Veiled Death elder said. I feel the need to help you...once.”
― Erika Leigh Agnew, The Besieged Unicorn Army of Ryk: Book 2: Prequel to Dragonsown

“Morgan could have been a fairy queen, I thought as I watched her walk towards me, each step causing the water to ripple and stroke against my thighs.

In a different time, we might have been queens together. But I would not be disappointed in what we had. What was happening here, now, was true magic.

Not the tricks Merlin taught us, but the fire that raged inside me for Morgan, which I was now certain flared in Morgan too.

"Show me your realm, lady of the lake," she whispered close to my ear, sending a tiny shudder down my spine.”
― Jean Menzies, The Lady of the Lake

“Failure burns away what isn't essential, leaving what lasts.”
― Amit Sharma, Avyan in the Sacred Realm

“We are the Choosers of the Slain, the Shield Maidens of Myth. Join us now sister, come forthwith.”
― TRL Boyd, Valkyries on the Rise: A Colliding Realms Novel

“She felt her body disperse, her structure release into elemental and shifting from fire to air, to water to earth. And then there was no Earth, and it was far beyond the Sun’s keeping of years. And all was a matrix of sound.
Lahana lost hold of time and became as a song lilting upon breath. Then a great longing, a longing to transfigure. The song became a dance, and touch was like a celebration of life. And life opened to a richer song. A longing for the intensification of elemental division. For the beauty of division in symphonic harmony.
Lahana felt pulled with the others in her dance, gathering matter and weight and solidity. She felt time catch hold of her and an emergent cosmos. Time awakening her as she submerged into the fabric of this still young cosmos. Becoming fire shifting to air, to water to earth. Her spirit dancing with the Earthlight that began to reach through the tumult of the elements. Earthlight pouring into the spinning particles of matter and seeking harmony of flesh with spirit – with as much longing as Lahana felt.
Lahana saw time awaken the evolving awareness of the Earth Spirit – embraced within the evolving awareness of the Universe. And both these, Earth and Cosmos, embracing Lahana’s own journey, offering her the garments of their flesh, offering her the sustenance of their bodies.
Then a deep breath ran through her, slow and complete. And she woke . . .”
― Tamara Rendell, Lahana

“out on the boats at night, with the stars all clear, I feel as though I’m caught between two hands of infinity. And they’re holding me still but pulling me into them all at the same time. And when everyone is quiet, just waiting, I feel like the sea has its own voice. Not the one everyone talks about – the voices of the dead or the sirens or the monsters – but its own. And it could tell you the answer to everything if you only knew how to ask it.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lahana

“To light a candle is to cast a shadow.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“The making of a monster doesn’t happen all at once. It’s a series of small abandonments and compromises. You betray your family for love. Then you erase yourself for acceptance.”
― Caroline Hurry, Medusa's Musings

“Every character starts as a thought. Every legend starts with courage.”
― Arun Subramanian, BINGO THE BOY'S TALE: English