Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.

Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?

...true wisdom is the skill and practice of death.

I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help?

How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

I hear they make greeting cards now to thank your therapist... for NOTHING

There is special power in that sword, ' Ewer went on, 'the gem in the guard of the Ares holds the blood of the Creature that has been slain by it.

There is always someone to forgive, if not another, than yourself.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept his lot calmly even if they roll a few more upon it.

I have too much respect for ballet to dare practice it. I did ask ballerina Megan LeCrone to teach me jetés. She said that was impossible but did observe that I have great feet.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

I realize that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.

Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird concerts when I was possibly too young.