Key Insights & Memorable Quotes
Below are the most popular and impactful highlights and quotes from Psyche and Eros:
“By learning to truly love someone else, you learn to love the world. And yourself, which may be even harder.”
“We were not in thrall to destiny or fate, but merely the weight of our own choices. When we turned toward each other like flowers facing the sun, we were not fulfilling some prophecy or old story. We were writing our own.”
“I saw now that the legends were drenched in blood, the blood of women.”
“The Greeks have three words for love. The first is philia, the kind of love that involves liking and grows up between two people who enjoy each other’s company very much. The second is agape, the selfless love of parents for children or between those who are like family to one another. The third is eros, which explains itself—connection, spark, the desire of the body to seek fulfillment in another.”
“If Psyche dies, I will never be finished mourning her. I may not deserve her, but this world does.”
“It was like comparing the cold unyielding beauty of the stars to the bloom of a flower, something impermanent and imperfect but all the more lovely for it.”
“Medusa shot me a glance. “No, he is farther ahead. Why, do you have some plan to slay the hound of hell? One last attempt to win renown as a hero?” “No,” I replied. “I like dogs, that’s all.”
“You can't be a hero', he told me. 'You're a girl.' I kicked him in the shins and sent him crying to his mother.”
“Atalanta had shown me bear tracks in the woods. A series of clawed prints, larger than my hand, leading away into the brush. The creature who had made them was long gone and could only be defined by the impressions it had left. Love was like that, noticeable only by its absence.”
“Separation cannot kill love, as you know, but it is an agony nonetheless.”
“We are responsible for what we create.”
“My arrows might fester in a wounded heart, spreading like an infection. Or perhaps love itself had been rotten from the start.”
“The Greeks have three words for love. The first is philia, the kind of love that involves liking and grows up between two people who enjoy each other’s company very much. The second is agape, the selfless love of parents for children or between those who are like family to one another. The third is eros, which explains itself – connection, spark, the desire of the body to seek fulfillment in another.”
“You will be a great lover, not a great hero, Prometheus told me once.He was wrong. I would be both.”
“The fear never goes away. But in time, love makes it bearable.”
“The sons of gods received a hero's training, divine gifts, and everlasting fame.Their daughters, like Helen, were prizes to be won.”
“What should I do for them? I wondered, gazing at the destruction below. The answer came to me immediately, drifting up from the depths of my unconscious mind.Anything you can.”
“Laughter-loving, the poets called Aphrodite, but they never considered who or what she might be laughing at.”
“And because I have found that a life spent protecting what one loves is the greatest satisfaction of all.”
“Los griegos disponen de tres palabras para designar el amor y esa noche las conocimos todas.”
“Truly great lovers rarely make their way into the public eye. They are too busy with one another.”
“A hero may be immortalized in song for a thousand years, but the greatness of a lover is a quieter thing.”
“A sad man, when all is said and done, sad and angry, though that does not excuse what he did or what he would go on to do.”
“I did not want to start weeping now. I was not sure I would ever stop.”
“Despite the pleasure I took in seeing my arrow hit its mark, I disliked being told where to aim.”
