Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to…

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

— Thomas Paine

Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.

— Raymond Burr

.The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it is.

— Tinku Razoria

My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how…

— Jim Butcher

Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find…

— Jim Butcher

But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they…

— Mary Oliver

Aphros nodded, a glint of pride in his eyes. “We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a famous mer-hero, and we have trained…

— Rick Riordan

What exactly did you find in Atlanta?” Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out souvenirs. “Some peach preserves. A couple of T-shirts. A…

— Rick Riordan

“It was told that during the wedding feast, Eris [Discordia], a daughter of Nyx, threw a golden apple into their midst, intended as a…

— Nicholas Chong

What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. But I just know that…

— Rick Riordan

Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.

— Camille Paglia

“This vessel requires sustenance." "You want... breakfast?" Lore guessed.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“Remind me again-why do you hate me so much?" I don't hate you." Could've fooled me." She folded her cap of invisibility. "Look...we're just…

— Rick Riordan

If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats are named…

— Ursula Vernon

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

— Lord Byron