Antigoddess Quotes

“The urge to fall [in love] was utterly new and made her [Athena] dizzy. He [Odysseus] could catch her and hold her up. She knew he could.

If this is how Aphrodite feels every day, it's no wonder she's such an idiot.”
― Kendare Blake, Antigoddess

“For the record I don't believe in Fate. I believe that the pieces have been placed. The ending hasn't been written yet.”
― Kendare Blake, Antigoddess

“This is what men risk so much for; this shiver, this acute heat and desire. This is what they think eternity feels like.”
― Kendare Blake, Antigoddess

“It’s a hard choice, but this is why I lead. No one else has the stomach to do the unpleasant things that sometimes need doing.”
― Kendare Blake, Antigoddess

“The blood inside her hands hurt and felt slushy, like if you tore them open it'd look like a red ICEE.”
― Kendare Blake, Antigoddess

“The Mustang growled into reverse, aiming straight for the old lady.
Cassandra would have winced, even if she had been the most evil old woman on the face of the planet. Even if she had been granny-Hitler, she would have winced at the idea of running her down. But the thing standing in the road looked nothing like an old woman anymore.”
― Kendare Blake, Antigoddess

“I mean, face it, mate, aside from your questionable decision to reenter high school, you're no different than any of them.”
― Kendare Blake, Antigoddess

“Fate was the only lesson a god needed to learn. It was their only hard limit.”
― Kendare Blake, Antigoddess

“And thus was their burial of Apollo, god of the sun.”
― Kendare Blake, Antigoddess

“Gods are cold. War, killing, and stabbing each other in the back is really what we do best.”
― Kendare Blake, Antigoddess

“But she’d always watched. She had always made sure he was safe. Will I fail this time? Will I finally have to watch him die, not in his bed an old man but young, and soon, and painfully?”
― Kendare Blake, Antigoddess

“You still can’t touch me.”
“But you’re still my goddess?”
“Because I’m still your goddess.”
― Kendare Blake, Antigoddess

“He was a god, he said, and always had been. Or at least, that was what they used to be called. What they were now, he didn’t know. It seemed like the wrong word when he was so limited, so much less than he’d been before.”
― Kendare Blake, Antigoddess

“deserve.”
― Kendare Blake, Antigoddess

“I don’t either. It was just something to say. Anyway, if you don’t remember it, then it isn’t much use.” He gave her a piercing look, making sure nothing was flooding back. “Might as well call it ‘just a dream.”
― Kendare Blake, Antigoddess