So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

Every moment must be first known and then savored.

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.

And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.