Quotes from Bernard Evslin

But bad luck makes good stories.

Whoever takes me captive won't live long enough to enjoy it

I am Atalanta. I belong to this mountain, to the clan of mountain bears." "I am Meleager," he said. "I belong to Atalanta.

Wretched girl- you are not ready to accept love. Yes, I am love itself and I cannot live where I am not believed. Farewell...

Don't be a fool. Go lose your head over some other girl. I'm not for you.

The others want to coerce her. I want her to want me... so he prayed to Aphrodite, goddess of love.

It was she who stated that compassion was the best part of wisdom.

Apollo taught her to sing and play the lyre. Athene taught her to spin, Demeter to tend a garden. Aphrodite taught her how to look at a man without moving her eyes and how to dance without moving her legs. Poseidon gave her a pearl necklace and promised she would never drown. And finally Hermes gave her a beautiful golden box, which, he told her, she must never, never open. And then Hera gave her curiosity.

Demeter was also a moon goddess. And all through mythology there is a connection between horse and moon and sea. The she-horse is given a sea-name, "mare"; the moon swings the tides, the waves have white manes, the dripping horses stamp on the beach, and their hooves leave moon-shaped marks.

I traveled a road that was supposed to be fatal before and came out alive. I met quite a few unpleasant characters on my journey and had a few anxious moments, but I learned from them that the best weapon you can give an enemy is your own fear.

They were too young to live without hope

When I am your age, when the years have thinned my blood, when rage has cooled into judgment, then I will go in for treaties, compromises. Now, I must fight.

But the eyes of jealousy are very sharp, and Hera saw them.

He stood there feeling the sweet poison spread in his veins, confused, growing dizzy with joy and strangeness. He had spread love, but never felt it; shot others, but never wounded himself.

She felt herself strangling with a great rush of passion. She fell violently, monstrously, in love...

Listen to me he said. You are not to look upon yourself as victims or victims you will surely be.

When hero confronts monster in these myths it is apt to be a family quarrel.

do not fear your enemy's size, but use it against him. Then his strength will become yours.

Procrustes bed is a phrase meaning any difficult situation which cannot be changed but to which man must adapt himself.

Heroes are made, I see, when retreat is cut off.

there was much to amuse her. Secretly she gloated upon her power over this most fearsome monarch....

she admired the lofty set of his black-robed figure, the majestic shoulders, the great impatient hands, and his gloomy black eyes.

For there is in man too: a vaunting pride that needs little sustenance to make it swell to giant size. Improve his lot, and he will forget that which makes him pleasing- his sense of worship, his humility. He will grow poisoned with pride and fancy himself a god...

Procrustes bed is a phrase meaning any difficult situation which cannot be changed but to which man must adapt himself. It comes from the uncomfortable hospitality offered by the innkeeper Procrustes, who bolted guests to the bed. If they were too short, he stretched them; if too long, he