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“The gods were there to do the duties of a megaphone, because who else would people listen to?”
“Nico di Angelo came into Olympus to a hero's welcome, his father right behind him, despite the fact that Hades was only supposed to visit Olympus in winter solstice. The God of the dead looked stun...”
“I mean, it's one thing saying you've got the best god, but sayin' it's the only real one is a bit of a cheek, in my opinion. I know where I can find at least two any day of the week. And they say e...”
“She opened one eye. The goddess Artemis is going to talk to the supreme god Zeus about me? Yup. She closed her eyes again. Im so not okay.”
“Lord, she really hoped that was his penis and that Greek gods didnt pad their briefs.”
“The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction!-Bacchus”
“The gods are real crazy when it comes to prayers. They listen to some sometimes and do not listen to some sometimes. But the whole world prays, nonetheless-All the time”
“Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it.”
“Dont interfere with false gods, youll get the gold paint all over your hands.”
“Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods.”
“But I found signs of their trespass: a burned patch planted with a fistful of grain, a tree felled or stripped of fruit, a deer strung up in a snare. I never saw a poacher. They were too cunning, a...”
“However, what he wanted was impossible: the serenity of the Gods cannot be achieved by the sword.”
“Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.”
“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”
“The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips Bronze cheeks and woolly hair The Grecian gods are like the Greeks As keen-eyed cold and fair.”
“There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khat-mandu There's a little marble cross below the town There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew And die yellow god forever gaze...”
“Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.”
“I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me;And in small compass the dark waters cram.”
“There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good —...”
“Aeneas' mother is a star?""No; a goddess."I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when things begin growing. And we call the evening star Venus."He thought i...”
