“This is what men risk so much for; this shiver, this acute heat and desire. This is what they think eternity feels like.”

“How foolish of me to have disregarded you, dear goddess. I wont make that mistake again.”

“Listen, whispers Dario. How still it is. They stand under a darkened archway, the only sound a whispered squeak where docked gondolas rub against each other. Negative ions from the lapping water re...”

“People don't believe in gods because they can't wrap their minds around the idea of someone allowing all the terrible things in the world to happen.”

“The sight of a worm excites my reverence more than all the gods men have invented.”

“For the natural polytheist, whose gods arise in and from the natural material world ... Our gods not only have transcendent eyes and metaphysical hands. They have antlers and feathers, hooves and s...”

“I sing to you of many more gods, gods of wind and water, gods of each mineral and the events that created them. I sing to you of the gods of protons, of quarks, of atomic forces binding and holding...”

“Icarus should have waited for nightfall,the moon would have never let him go.”

“You're not crazy." She was serious, no hint of a smile.He cocked a brow. "And how do you know that?""I cut hair for a living." Her dark eyes glinted with playfulness, easing some of his jacked-up n...”

“You should know by now that love is never a weakness, Ares. Love is the mortal worlds greatest strength.”