Quotes About Power

Lass ihn ein Held sein. Du bist etwas anderes. - Und was soll das sein? - Eine Hexe, antwortete ich. Mit grenzenloser Macht. Die nur sich selbst zur Rechenschaft verpflichtet ist.

Achilles' miracle was his speed.

There is no law that gods must be fair,

My mother has forbidden it. Because of the prophecy." "What prophecy?" I had not heard of this. "That I will be the best warrior of my generation.

Yes," he said. "That is how it works, Circe. I tell Father that my sorcery was an accident, he pretends to believe me, and Zeus pretends to believe him, and so the world is balanced. It is your own fault for confessing. Why you did that, I will never understand.

There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.

Zeus' thunderbolts still smelled of singed flesh and patricide.

Achilles' miracle was his speed. His spear, as he began the first pass, moved faster than my eye could follow. It whirled, flashing forward, reversed, then flashed behind. The shaft seemed to flow in his hands, the dark gray point flickered like a snake's tongue. His feet beat the ground like a dancer, never still.

His rage was so hot the air bent and wavered around him. "I can end you with a thought." It was my oldest fear, that white annihilation. I felt it shiver through me. But enough. At last, enough.

King Agamemnon." Achilles stepped forward. His voice was easy, almost amused. "I don't think anyone has forgotten that you are leader of this host. But you do not seem to remember that we are kings in our own right, or princes, or heads of our families. We are allies, not slaves." A few men nodded; more would have liked to.

His eyes narrowed, and I could see the reflexive 'no' in them. I would come to know this type of man, jealous of his little power, to whom I was only a woman.

Despite your wet-mouse weeping, I saw how you would not be ground into the earth. You loathed them as I did. I think it is where our power comes from.

La sangre divina purificaba la sangre sucia de nuestra raza y era capaz de forjar héroes solo con barro y arena.

No logré darle la divinidad —dice Tetis con voz quebrada y llena de pesar. —Pero le diste la vida.

The death I had put into his hand.

Il ressemblait à un orage d'été, dont la foudre illumine le ciel pâle. En sa présence, tout le reste s'estompait.

Do you want to be a god?" It was easier this time. "Not yet," he said. A tightness I had not known was there eased a little. I would not lose him yet.

I feel like I could eat the world raw." -- Achilles

If he was nervous, even I could not tell. I watched as he greeted them, spoke ringing words that made them stand up straighter. They grinned, loving every inch of their miraculous prince: his gleaming hair, his deadly hands, his nimble feet. They leaned toward him, like flowers to the sun, drinking in his luster. It was as Odysseus had said: he had light enough to make heroes of them all.

Es posible domesticar una serpiente para que coma de tu mano, pero nadie le va a quitar las ganas de morder.

You think I'd let Apollo have him? He does not deserve such a flower. I blew a discus into the boy's head, that showed the Olympian prig.

Non mi sorprese come venivo ritratta: la maga altezzosaannichilita di fronte alla spada dell'eroe, inginocchiata a supplicare pietà. Le donne umiliate mi sembrano il passatempo preferito dei poeti. Quasi non possa esistere storia senza che noi strisciamo o piangiamo.

The swollen bellies that followed were not a thing of shame; they were profit: more slaves. These unions were not always rape; sometimes there was mutual satisfaction and even affection. At least that is what the men who spoke of them believed.

Be witness to the power of Circe, witch of Aiaia.