Athena: I Love Knitting Needles

How can I explain to you, my happiness, my golden, wonderful happiness, how much I am all yours – with all my memories, poems, outbursts, inner whirlwinds? Or explain that I cannot write a word without hearing how you will pronounce it – and can’t recall a single trifle I’ve lived through without regret – so sharp! – that we haven’t lived through it together – whether it’s the most, the most personal, intransmissible – or only some sunset or other at the bend of a road – you see what I mean, my happiness?

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

*Ares showing younger Phobos and Deimos his weapon collection*

Ares: This is Dorothea, this is Lydia, and this one is Anastasia

Young Deimos: Are any of them boys, or are they all girls?

Ares: Girls? These are women

Norse mythology from A to Z:

[H] - Hel is a giantess and/or goddess who rules over the identically-named Hel, the underworld where many of the dead dwell.

Patroclus: you ever wanna talk about your emotions Antilochus?

Antilochus: no

Achilles: I do!

Patroclus: I know Achilles

Achilles: I'm mad at Agamemnon!

Patroclus: I know Achilles

I won’t hide it: I’m so unused to being – well, understood, perhaps, – so unused to it, that in the very first minutes of our meeting I thought: this is a joke, a masquerade trick …

Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

Norse mythology from A to Z:

[S] - Sjörå a mythical creature of the lake in Swedish folklore. It was a water spirit, comparable to the nymphs of Greek mythology.

Telemachus: And then, I went to Sparta and met your best friend-

Odysseus: Diomedes was in Sparta?

Telemachus: No, your other best friend.

Odysseus: Agamemnon’s ghost?

Telemachus: No, his brother-

Odysseus: Castor? That’s Agamemnon’s brother in law silly.

Telemachus: No, the person you went to Troy for.

Odysseus: Aw, Helen said we were best friends? That’s sweet.

Telemachus: No, her husband.

Odysseus: I always knew Paris liked me deep-down.

Phobos : I told Deimos his ears flush when he lie.
Eros: Why?
Phobos : Look.
Phobos : Hey Deimos ! Do you love us?
Deimos , covering his ears: No.
Eros:

Greek mythology from A to Z:

[C] - Calypso (Καλυψώ) was a nymph who captured Odysseus for many years, before he finally managed to escape. She lived on the mythical island of Ogygia.

Phobos: Do you have any skeletons in your closet? Thanatos: You mean literally or figuratively? Phobos: Honestly, the fact that I have to specify...