Sweetbitter Song Quotes

“If I had loved her less, this moment would not have hurt so much. This pain, I knew, was the price of loving her as I did, so completely, so irrevocably, and it was a price I would have willingly paid over and over.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Sweetbitter Song

“Let history have its lies if it means we can have
each other.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Sweetbitter Song

“Perhaps that was what it meant to truly love someone—not fighting to hold them together but making them feel safe enough to fall apart.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Sweetbitter Song

“Penelope had once said that belief gave people a sense of purpose in this life. I had never much cared for our gods, but within the depths of Penelope’s love, I had found my religion, and as we worshipped at the altar of our bodies, we became, for that briefest moment, the rulers of our own universe, as endless and inevitable as the Olympians themselves.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Sweetbitter Song

“She looked like she belonged in the realm of the divine”
― Rosie Hewlett, Sweetbitter Song

“Because my father always expects me to lose,” she said. “Being underestimated is a woman’s greatest power. That’s what my mother says… Used to say.”
― Rosie Hewlett, Sweetbitter Song: A Greek Myth Retelling of Forbidden Love Set in the World of the Odyssey