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“I'm a damsel, I'm in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day!”
― Walt Disney Company

“I know now that love means showing up for one another and trusting that the other person always has your back. It means asking for help sometimes, and not thinking that means you look weak. Love means opening your heart to another, no matter the consequences.”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance

“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

“She'd died, been saved from the river Styx, and been offered the chance to become a god all in one day. It was a lot to swallow for any girl.”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance

“I can see the thickness to your skin, Megara. You are tough. Courageous. Proud. I will assist you however I can."
Meg had heard tales of Athena helping those on heroic endeavors, but she'd never imagined she'd be worthy of such a thing.”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance

“If one truly wants to live, they need to open their heart to others, and I have. No matter what comes next for me, I know now I loved and was loved in return.”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance

“While Megara's deep red hair and pale skin resembled her father's, she shared her mother's unusual violet eyes. Their eyes were so magnetic a day didn't go by when someone in the street or at the market didn't comment on them.”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance

“In the last few years, Meg had been to hell and back- literally. She'd sold her soul to the god of the Underworld and spent her days and nights fulfilling Hades's every demand. While she still walked in the land of the living, her life was no longer her own.
Meeting Hercules had awoken something in her. Honestly, she wasn't sure what that something was, but she knew it felt important. Why else would she have leaped in front of a falling pillar to save him, causing her own demise in the process? That moment, and Wonder Boy's rescue of her afterward, was a blur now, like so many nightmares she tried hard to forget. The next thing she remembered was air filling her lungs as if she'd held her breath underwater for too long. Then there had been a crack of lightning, a flurry of clouds, and she and Wonder Boy were being whisked into the heavens toward Mount Olympus.”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance

“Who are you going to believe, son? Me or this mortal?"
Meg's eyes flashed. "I'm not the one who let his own child be stolen while he slept."
The minute the comment left her lips, she knew she'd gone too far.
The other gods quickly began to dissipate. Hera stayed put, but Meg wondered if she was in shock.
Zeus's face turned almost purple as he seemingly grew three times his size. Behind him, the sky darkened like an approaching thunderstorm and lightning bolts crisscrossed the sky. Hercules instinctively stepped in front of Meg, putting one hand on her arm, but she nudged it away. She'd lived with Hades. She wasn't afraid to stand up to Zeus.
"You dare question my judgment, Megara?" Zeus thundered as the storm clouds rolled in around him. Lightning crashed dangerously close to where she and Hercules were standing. "You, the woman who worked to keep my son from completing his quest?"
On second thought, maybe she should be a little afraid of Zeus. Especially now that she realized he was well aware of what she had done.”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance

“Was the god of marriage and birth offering her an olive branch? Meg took a deep breath and tried to keep her words in check for a change while she deferred to Hera. "What do you suggest?"
Hera continued to look at her. "That depends. Are you in love with my son?"
"Love?" Meg took a step back. She immediately thought back to something she'd said to Hercules as she lay dying back in Thebes. People always do crazy things when they're in love.
Was that what this was? Love?
Was she in love with a god?
No.
Yes.
Possibly.”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance

“While her mother worked, Megara took care of their own life- cleaning their rented spaces, cooking so her mother wouldn't have to after a backbreaking day, and minding the money her mother brought home. If young Megara had learned anything from her time with her father, it was to hold on to her drachmas. She counted and recounted what her mother earned and learned to keep a budget for food so that they wouldn't go hungry if they could help it. And though girls weren't afforded school, Meg taught herself to read using the stone signs in the square, stealing Homer's works out of the school-aged boys' bags when she could. She watched the merchants in the market accept payment from shoppers, learning how to count coins and what each one meant.”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance

“Thanks for the bargain, Theos," Megara said to the young man in the marketplace who had given her a good price on day-old bread. "It's been a real slice." Then she turned with an expertly timed flip of her lengthening red hair- it was almost to her waist now- and swung her hips as she sashayed away. As Megara grew, she was learning that her charm was a tool she could rely on.”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance

“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

“You don't know what it's like to stand in front of someone you thought you loved who betrayed you..." Her voice died out and they looked at one another. Hercules couldn't help a small smirk. Her cheeks began to burn. "Okay, I'm going to eat my own words now. It was just hard, okay?" She ripped the poppy into pieces that blew away in the wind.
"Of course it was," he said gently. "But you still have to face him if you want to learn about Katerina. And who knows? Maybe he'll surprise you." He touched her hand. "People can do that, you know."
Wonder Boy really was too good for this world.”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance

“Oh, what the hell." She stepped in and pressed the button.
Maybe using the word hell was her mistake. The doors closed and then opened again, filling with smoke that wound its way around her shoulders and down her body before she could react. She found herself being pulled forward.
Hades's face suddenly appeared inches from her own. "Hello there, Meg-let. Miss me?”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance

“Meg quickened her pace when she saw a meadow peek out over the next hilltop. As she got closer, the sun seemed to pull away from the clouds and the grass under her feet turned a bright green. She heard definite sounds of a party in the distance and quickened her pace. The air started to smell sweeter. Were those apricots she smelled? Or figs?
And there were trees again! She hadn't realized how much she missed them till she saw them growing there along the path. They had perfect little green leaves and flowers budding on branches. And at the side of the road was a woman kneeling over a garden tending to a bed of hydrangeas blooming in rich fuchsias, blues, and whites.
"Those are gorgeous!" Meg said in surprise. They were the most colorful things she'd seen in the Underworld and the vibrancy warmed her heart for a moment. "I can't believe anything like that grows down here!"
The woman looked up at her and smiled, her eyes dark yet warm. "Thanks. I wasn't sure if it was possible myself, but with deep rooting and some good soil, it seems anything is."
"You planted these?" Meg said in awe.
The woman looked pleased as she glanced at the colorful beds of blooms in the nearby meadows. "You could say that. I love the drama of it all- the seeds being sown, the elements working for and against them, the flower erupting against all odds, then the death of the bloom. So much more exciting than my old life.”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance

“He was listening with rapt attention. "I'm boring you, aren't I? I don't usually tell anyone my life's story.鈥� She'd never told anyone particular anecdote, actually.”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance

“No one is better suited for solving crimes."
Meg cocked her head to one side, her fiery-red ponytail swaying in the light breeze. "If you consider the scheming I did for Hades crime work, then maybe. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. This is one small gig." A gig that would barely pay the rent, but she couldn't be choosy. There wasn't a large market for women who'd recently been freed from the Underworld, and she needed to make money.”
― Elizabeth Lim, A Twisted Tale Anthology

“I guess this is what I get for agreeing to give a woman a job like this."
Meg placed her hands on her hips. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize that as a man, you were making such good headway on your own without me.”
― Elizabeth Lim, A Twisted Tale Anthology

“Are you accusing a god spying on you, Megara?" Hera asked.
"Accusing? No," Meg said. "Guessing? Yes. It's what I would be doing if I had a son who almost renounced his heritage to date a mortal. I'd want to know if she was worth all the fuss." Meg shrugged. "Call it a hunch.”
― Elizabeth Lim, A Twisted Tale Anthology