#greek

She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me. "Be careful seaweed brain." She said putting on her invisible cap and disappearing. I probably would have sat there all day, trying to remember my name, but then the sea demons came. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#god #gods #greek #kiss #remember

Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded. Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control traffic.” You both sound like my mother,” I said. Shut up!” they both said in union. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#hunters #olympians #percy-jackson #thalia #zoe

THE MARK OF ATHENA BABY!!!!!! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#cry-your-pants-off #drama #extreme-awesemnes #greek-mythology #heart-breaking

I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish...well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Greek, that's my point. ↗

— Louis de Bernières

#generalisations #greeks #spanish

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had. ↗

— Eric Bana

#greek mythology #had #i #i wish #mythology

Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties? ↗

— Roman Payne

#ancient-greeks #balance #beauties #cycles #europe

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. ↗

— Edward Bond

#done #drama #enabled #goodness #greek

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks. ↗

— Edward Bond

#greeks #our #theatre

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#civilization #discussing #emotional #fact #friendly

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.' ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#called #death #grandly #greeks #happy