“Helen stared at him "How do you do that? How do you figure everything out so quickly?""You may be all-powerful, but nothing beats plain old logic." He smiled at her”

“Ive always thought that was the lamest argumentthat we need some people to be poor in order to remind the rest of us to be grateful. All that really means is that someone has to suffer poverty so o...”

“But you have to admit it is human nature to only really appreciate something if youve worked for it, or if you know you can lose it. How are you going to make the inhabitants of your little heaven ...”

“I am the god of dreams, but not even I would dream of speaking for Hades, Morpheus replied with a mischievous look in his eyes. But if I had to guess, I would say its because he knows how destructi...”

“She'd created her own hell, and now that she had learned to control her fear, she knew how to create her own paradise.”

“But how could anyone be grateful for what they have if they didnt know what it was like not to have what they need?”

“Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didnt want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didnt feel so good today.”

“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”

“As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the sea and couples the animals in the fields in spr...”

“Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. -Hestia”

“They have not forgotten the Mysteries,' she said, they have found them too difficult. They want a God who will care for them, who will not demand that they struggle for enlightenment, but who will ...”

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

“Men work together,' I told him from the heart,'Whether they work together or apart.”

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”