“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.”

“Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men”

“Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers ...”

“Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . is a pious lie”

“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 ...”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”