Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.

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

Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.

Don't forget, Riddler, how I love thee. Or all we shared together. Or that this sea and all other seas can lead you back to me.

Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.

What is needed is never to be had without price.

Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged.