“ For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one. Homer
“ The Cyclops was about to roll the stone back into place, when from somewhere outside Annabeth shouted, Hello, ugly!Polyphemus stiffened. Who said that?Nobody! Annabeth yelled.That got exactl;y the rea… Rick Riordan
“ There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a siren. It may be with us all our lives, or it may be many years or decades be… Caitlín R. Kiernan
“ You know, Mac,”Cadmus said still looking out the window. “We may have to work on the way we tell our story …apparently it’s not amusing enough.” “I’ll try to include a joke between ‘he bled to death’a… Sulari Gentill
“ As you set out on your journey to Ithaca,pray that your journey be a long one,filled with adventure, filled with discovery.Laestrygonians and Cyclopes,the angry Poseidon--do not fear them:you'll never… Barry B. Powell
“ The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and courage. The loyalty in this case is of two degrees or commitments:… Joseph Campbell
“ 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 extent… Roman Payne
“ In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of the best and most responsible kind of agriculture… Wendell Berry
“ But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in a foreign country, if it be far from f… Homer
