“She had power over the most magnificent forces on Earth, but she still didnt feel like she had power over the most important thing of allher own heart.”

“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.”

“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”

“Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.”

“Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live”

“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 ...”

“No one asks poor people if they want war. Nor had anyone asked these poor people if they wanted to die of thirst and exposure on the coastal sea, or if they wanted to be robbed and raped by their o...”

“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”

“The rich are all alike, to revise Tolstoys famous words, but the poor are poor in their own particular ways. Any reasonably intelligent reader could blow that generalization apart in the time it ta...”