Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.

I don't want to be any closer to the gods than death will bring me.

You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.

We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god...is not helping him today.

You must become like yourself.

When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and up through Shakespeare and Milton, the most important themes to tackle are those of the mythopoeic domain, tales of the body and mind seen through a temperament and a cosmos divorced from current reality so what is said can be more clear.

It is upon each soul to recognize its limit.