the way it always did.

The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.

Why do you have to be so damn cryptic?

That’s kind of creepy,

I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.

I see parents who bring their kids down because their parents did that to them, instead of reinforcing their gifts, and instilling a sense of what they came to this earth to do.

The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly... "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed.

Just say anything without even caring if it is true. That is how riots start.

Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

The demigods have left for alaska," Stheno said. "They fly straight to their death. Ah, small "d" death, I mean. Not our prisoner Death. Although, i suppose they're flying to him too.

That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened - good, bad, or anywhere in between - it was always, if nothing else, all your own.

I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.