purple turtle notes

i am always learning the same thing:
there is no other way to live than this,
still, and grateful, and full of longing.
--eric gamalinda

“The wine god sighed. ‘Oh, Hades if I know. But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.’”  

The Battle of the Labyrinth, Book Four in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, by Rick Riordan