There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?

I feel like I could eat the world raw.

As an author, one of the most important things I think you can do once you've written a novel is step back. When the book is out, it belongs to the readers and you can't stand there breathing over their shoulders.

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?

I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.