Mythology Quotes

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"Ares was a bastard, an evil patron of rage, violence, bloodlust, and massacre."

- Dancer O'Faran
Red Rising, ch. 8: Dancer, p. 63

"Do you know why we call ourselves Sons of Ares, Darrow? To the Romans, Mars was the god of war—a god of military glory, defense of the hearth and home. Honorable and all. But Mars is a fraud. He is a romanticized version of the Greek god Ares."

- Dancer O'Faran
Red Rising, ch. 8: Dancer, p. 63

"Polemides is Greek for “child of war.”"

- Darrow O'Lykos
Red Rising, ch. 14: Andromedus, p. 104

"Phobos means fear. In myth, he was the offspring of Aphrodite and Ares, the child of love and war."

- Darrow O'Lykos
Morning Star, ch. 14: The Vampire Moon, p. 103

"Patient is the bow of Apollo far-striker."

- Apollonius au Valii-Rath
Light Bringer, ch. 8: Darrow: The Hanging Coliseum, p. 76

"if the gods have taught us anything, it is that prescience always comes with a price. Odin gave up one of his eyes in exchange for wisdom."

- Kavax au Telemanus
Light Bringer, ch. 14: Virginia: The Armor of Love, p. 139

"Without order, chaos rushes in. Kill me. Find out.” He grins at the Volk and the Ascomanni. “They will eat each other unless you claim the throne, Tyr Morga. Unless you prove me right—you came to get your axe back. Go on, Gold. They were designed to be used. An ouroboros. Unless you feed them enemies, they are a serpent eating their own tail."

- Volsung Fá
Light Bringer, ch. 76: Darrow: By the Laws of the Ice, p. 569