Psyche and Eros Quotes

“By learning to truly love someone else, you learn to love the world. And yourself, which may be even harder.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“We were not in thrall to destiny or fate, but merely the weight of our own choices. When we turned toward each other like flowers facing the sun, we were not fulfilling some prophecy or old story. We were writing our own.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“I saw now that the legends were drenched in blood, the blood of women.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“The Greeks have three words for love. The first is philia, the kind of love that involves liking and grows up between two people who enjoy each other’s company very much. The second is agape, the selfless love of parents for children or between those who are like family to one another. The third is eros, which explains itself—connection, spark, the desire of the body to seek fulfillment in another.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“It was like comparing the cold unyielding beauty of the stars to the bloom of a flower, something impermanent and imperfect but all the more lovely for it.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“If Psyche dies, I will never be finished mourning her. I may not deserve her, but this world does.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“Medusa shot me a glance. “No, he is farther ahead. Why, do you have some plan to slay the hound of hell? One last attempt to win renown as a hero?” “No,” I replied. “I like dogs, that’s all.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“You can't be a hero', he told me. 'You're a girl.' I kicked him in the shins and sent him crying to his mother.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“Atalanta had shown me bear tracks in the woods. A series of clawed prints, larger than my hand, leading away into the brush. The creature who had made them was long gone and could only be defined by the impressions it had left. Love was like that, noticeable only by its absence.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“Separation cannot kill love, as you know, but it is an agony nonetheless.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“We are responsible for what we create.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“My arrows might fester in a wounded heart, spreading like an infection. Or perhaps love itself had been rotten from the start.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“The Greeks have three words for love. The first is philia, the kind of love that involves liking and grows up between two people who enjoy each other’s company very much. The second is agape, the selfless love of parents for children or between those who are like family to one another. The third is eros, which explains itself – connection, spark, the desire of the body to seek fulfillment in another.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“You will be a great lover, not a great hero, Prometheus told me once.
He was wrong. I would be both.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“The fear never goes away. But in time, love makes it bearable.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“The sons of gods received a hero's training, divine gifts, and everlasting fame.
Their daughters, like Helen, were prizes to be won.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“What should I do for them? I wondered, gazing at the destruction below. The answer came to me immediately, drifting up from the depths of my unconscious mind.
Anything you can.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“Laughter-loving, the poets called Aphrodite, but they never considered who or what she might be laughing at.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“And because I have found that a life spent protecting what one loves is the greatest satisfaction of all.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“Los griegos disponen de tres palabras para designar el amor y esa noche las conocimos todas.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“There was no safe harbor for me, so I had to become more terrible than what I endured.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“You cannot keep someone from the battles they were born to fight.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“There was a whole world around me, one that took no notice of my grief.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“Love was like that, noticeable only by its absence.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“When things are right, love is not an obstacle to becoming a hero. It's the very reason heroes rise.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“If love was a weapon, I would wield it well.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“Heroes persevered against the limitations of their own mortality and became lights for other human beings to follow.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“Truly great lovers rarely make their way into the public eye. They are too busy with one another.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“A hero may be immortalized in song for a thousand years, but the greatness of a lover is a quieter thing.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“A sad man, when all is said and done, sad and angry, though that does not excuse what he did or what he would go on to do.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros