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What I did not know was that I had hit upon a truth of womanhood: however blameless a life we led, the passions and the greed of men could bring us to ruin, and there was nothing we could do.
No longer was my world one of brave heroes; I was learning all too swiftly the women’s pain that throbbed unspoken through the tales of their feats.
The stories of Perseus did not allow for a Medusa with a story of her own.
I had thought he brought salvation with him. Instead he had traded my existing bondage for another.
I have felt the gaping wound and the bruised, ragged edges of grief. I know that human life shines more brightly because it is but a shimmering candle against an eternity of darkness, and it can be extinguished with the faintest breeze.”
I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself.
