Philoctetes Quotes

“I had grown accustomed to my station here.
Enduring it as if lost in a dream.
But today, my eyes have been opened.
Today, I awake.
Too long have I suffered adversity.
Pain from the actions of those entrusted with protecting me.
Forging on, my past shall not define me, even as I stand afeard a resurgence of my true vulnerabilities.
The time has come at last to abandon this isle.
To depart, never to return.
Fare thee well, O home.
Wait for my return no longer.
Onward I must proceed with strength in each footfall
Evermore haunted with the memories of the man I used to be.
For my old home is now behind me.
Faith is my new home.”
― Sophocles

“If I don't return, make sure Hercules moves on from all of this," Meg said.
"Meg..." Phil swallowed hard.
It was the first time he'd called her by her actual name.
She tried to put her spinning thoughts into words. "I don't want him wasting his immortality on me. He's a good guy who gives so much of himself. He deserves to have someone do that for him in return. Got it?"
Phil looked at her. "Wow, you really do love the guy, don't you?”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance

“Alas! it is the artificial refinements, the oppressive burden of a relaxing and deadening superfluity which render man indifferent to the value of life: when it is stripped of all foreign appendages, though borne down with sufferings so that the naked existence alone remains, still will its sweetness flow from the heart at every pulse through all the veins.”
― August Wilhelm Schlegel, Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

“Hera said if I proved my worth, she'd make me a god so Hercules and I could be together."
Phil nearly fell over again. "Holy Hera."
Red nodded. "My thoughts exactly.”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance