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1 " Name one hero who was happy." I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back." You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward." I can't." " I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. " I'll tell you a secret." " Tell me." I loved it when he was like this." I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. " Swear it." " Why me?" " Because you're the reason. Swear it." " I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes." I swear it," he echoed.We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned." I feel like I could eat the world raw. "
2 " As a general rule, it is highly desirable that ladies should keep their temper: a woman when she storms always makes herself ugly, and usually ridiculous also. There is nothing so odious to man as a virago. Though Theseus loved an Amazon, he showed his love but roughly, and from the time of Theseus downward, no man ever wished to have his wife remarkable rather for forward prowess than retiring gentleness. A low voice " is an excellent thing in woman. "
3 " It was the perfect set. Theseus gave a great war cry and brought his sword arcing up toward Sheba’s throat - but the monster of the labyrinth lives inside us all. She is the dark, devouring hunger that is never sated, the creeping shadow that ever plays the fiend to our seraphim, the secret rage hidden in our hearts; deny her, and we become her slaves; fight her, and we make her invincible. By now, you must know that no monster can ever be killed, not really - […] "
― Troy Denning , Pages of Pain
4 " An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is a bare stage where the inert I is assisted by the I suffering from that inertia. The latter wishes to free the former, but all efforts fail, as Theseus would have failed had he been not only himself but also the Minotaur; to kill him then, he would have had to kill himself "
― Alejandra Pizarnik
