Stone Blind Quotes
"Even the Earthshaker would think twice about taking on Atlas."
"How does the sea win any of its battles? By attrition."
"Imagine being a god, she thought, and still needing to tell everyone how impressive you were."
"It's because you have spent all these years with no one but your sisters for company."
"I wonder what she'd say about you," she said.
"You will never touch her again, do you hear me?" she screamed.
"Fishermen have a rule that if you find a shipwrecked sailor, you have to offer him a safe haven."
"Dictys never complained, nor even questioned it."
"He had pleaded and pestered and she could not keep refusing him as he grew older."
"Sometimes when she ran to meet the men as they came in with their catch, the dry sand would shift beneath her feet and she would experience the same terrible lurching sensation she had felt so long ago as she lay in the box on the waves."
"But she didn't really feel it until she could make out his distinctive stride and the way he was trying not to run ahead so he could tell her everything."
"He was pushing his matted hair back from his forehead, trying to untangle it from his beard so he could see better."
"Her true home, she felt, must always have been here."
"Her boy went to sea, unafraid. His mother was unafraid too."
"The gods had brought him here, so he could suppose they didn’t want him to die."
"I don’t struggle with basic things! I just didn’t understand at first."
"I don’t like it," Perseus clarified. "I just don’t want to fall."
"‘I don’t want you,’ she said. ‘Let go of me.’"
"I’m not running anywhere. I’m moving because you’re sitting so close that your hip was touching mine and I didn’t like it."
"‘It’s what Zeus wants us to do,’ she replied. ‘Help him.’"
"After all these years of being scared for her sister, she could not be scared of her now."
"Power is something you can control. Medusa can turn anything to stone, yes. But she can't not do it, if she doesn't want to."
"Athens wasn’t really Athens until it belonged to Athene, and until we were here."
"Everyone enjoyed it. What difference does it make that I was last?"
"He's scared of you. He'll say anything he thinks you want to hear."
"Powerful allies. A lesser man would not have such powerful allies."
"You could have told us you had no idea what you were doing when we met."
"The Gorgons are predators. Like dangerous creatures who would swallow you whole if you irritated them."
"The snakes are part of them. They have snakes for hair."
"I struggle to believe sometimes that you’re the son of Zeus."
"Everything you’ve told me makes me certain that this task is impossible."
"Who are you to decide who is worthy of love?"
"You’re behaving as though you’d have had a better chance if you didn’t know about the Gorgon’s power."
"I want the chance to help a mortal man I like in return."
"I don’t see how you can think that reflects poorly on him."
"I can only assume it’s because it reflects so badly on both of you."
"I don’t think that you are pleased with this marriage, whatever you say."