Quotes About Helen

I came to see that Penelope was twice as clever as her cousins and just as beautiful. So—" "As beautiful as Helen?" Diomedes interrupted. "Is that why she was twenty and unmarried?

Now Helen"—Odysseus paused, his arm half-extended to the priest—"remember that I swear only in fellowship, not as a suitor. You would never forgive yourself if you were to choose me." His words were teasing, and drew scattered laughter. We all knew it was not likely that one so luminous as Helen would choose the king of barren Ithaca.

It did not make Helen feel worse, though, as she had thought it might. It occupied her; it gave her a project to work on. She and Ray had shared almost nothing in years. Grief didn't count, because in a way it was nothing; there wasn't anything in it to hold on to, just wide-open empty space.