30 Quotes About Pandora

  • Author Rick Riordan
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    This belonged to my sister-in-law," Prometheus explained. "Pandora."A lump formed in my throat. "As in Pandora's box?"Prometheus shook his head. "I don't know how this box business got started. It was never a box. It was a pithos, a storage jar. I suppose Pandora's pithos doesn't have the same ring to it.

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  • Author Anne Rice
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    It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

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  • Author Lynne Ewing
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    In ancient times when Pandora's box was opened-""Pandora?" Kendra interrupted. "Are you talking about the myth?"Catty nodded solemnly. "It isn't a myth," she stated firmly and continued, "The last thing to leave the box was hope. Only Selene, the goddess of the moon, saw the creature that had been sent by the Atrox to devour hope. Selene took pity on the people of earth and gave her Daughters, like guardian angels, to perpetuate hope. I'm one of those Daughters. A goddess.

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  • Author Anne Rice
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    The disparity between outward appearances and inner disposition had disturbed me all my life.

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  • Author Lisa Kleypas
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    —Pues la pillará algún día —insistió Pandora con aire ominoso—, si es que no la ha pillado ya. Y luego me la transmitirá a mí. —Estás siendo muy dramática. Y no todos los libertinos tienen sífilis.—Le pienso preguntar. —¡Pandora, no lo hagas! Ese pobre hombre se asustará. —También me asustaré yo si termino perdiendo la nariz.

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  • Author Anne Rice
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    You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.

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