신들은 내가 고통받기를 원하지 않는다더니 말짱 헛소리...

신들은 내가 고통받기를 원하지 않는다더니 말짱 헛소리였다. 신들은 모두 희롱하기를 좋아한다. 나는 신들이 재미삼아 돌을 던지거나 꼬리에 불을 붙여 괴롭히는 주인 없는 개와 같은 신세였다. 신들이 맛보고 싶어하는 것은 짐승의 기름이나 뼈가 아니라 우리의 고통이다. - P152

Not the fat and bones of anim...

Not the fat and bones of animals, but our suffering, is what they love to savour. - P124

So much for the gods not wanting me to suffer. They all tease. I might as well have been a stray dog, pelted with stones or with its tail set alight for their amusement. Not the fat and bones of animals, but our suffering, is what they love to savour.
(16장. Bad Dreams, 124쪽) - P124

‘This shroud would be a fitte...

‘This shroud would be a fitter garment for me than for Laertes, wretched that I am, and doomed by the gods to a life that is a living death.‘ - P112

There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act. - P117

그는 구혼자들 중에서 오디세우스가 제일 먼저 쏴 죽인...

그는 구혼자들 중에서 오디세우스가 제일 먼저 쏴 죽인자였다. 그가 이렇게 화살을 꽂고 연기를 하는 건 항의의 뜻이다. 그러거나 말거나 나에게는 씨도 안 먹히는 일이다. 이 인간은 살아서도 쓰레기였는데 죽어서도 여전히 쓰레기다. - P126

He gazed at me lugubriously, ...

He gazed at me lugubriously, with eyes like a whipped spaniel’s. - P100

He could barely suppress a smirk. - P101

You can put the arrow back now. To tell you the truth, I feel a surge of joy every time I see it sticking through your lying, gluttonous neck. - P102

‘What young man wouldn’t want to marry a rich and famous widow? Widows are supposed to be consumed with lust, especially if their husbands have been missing or dead for such a long time, as yours was. You weren’t exactly a Helen, but we could have dealt with that. The darkness conceals much! All the better that you were twenty years older than us – you’d die first, perhaps with a little help, and then, furnished with your wealth, we could have had our pick of any young and beautiful princess we wanted. You didn’t really think we were maddened by love for you, did you? You may not have been much to look at, but you were always intelligent.’ - P102

He was the first of the Suitors that Odysseus shot. This performance of his with the arrow is meant as a reproach, or so he intends it, but it doesn’t cut any ice with me. The man was a pest when he was alive, and a pest he remains. - P99

But I was the daughter of a Naiad; I remembered my mother’s advice to me. Behave like water, I told myself. Don’t try to oppose them. When they try to grasp you, slip through their fingers. Flow around them. - P107