The gods want to bring a better day, and you are their messengers. Trust not in all you see. Trust only in your hearts. And in us, who love you both.

What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.

To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.

If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind works in certain patterns: the mind organizes facts in story form; it is your commonality with that body of human thought that makes a good book, not its estrangement from the common values that humans share.

The gods want to bring a better day, and you are their messengers. Trust not in all you see. Trust only in your hearts. And in us, who love you both.

Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.

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