Grace

“Sid rubbed the nape of her neck, studying me. Then she stuffed her hands into her pockets, hunching her shoulders. Quietly, she said, “You are my favorite impossible person.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“You make light of everything.”
“I make nothing too heavy to bear.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

“Brooding, simmering and raging in the ground, deep beneath the earth that once loved him, Ouranos compressed all his fury and divine energy into the very rock itself, hoping that one day some excavating creature somewhere would mine it and try to harness the immortal power that radiated from within. That could never happen, of course. It would be too dangerous. Surely the race had yet to be born that could be so foolish as to attempt to unleash the power of uranium?”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold

“It’s a midnight lie... a kind of lie told for someone else’s sake, a lie that sits between goodness and wrong, just as midnight is the moment between night and morning.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie