When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots. Learning Greek was like being given a super-power: linguistic x-ray vision.

I feel like I could eat the world raw.

No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

The door snicked shut.

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

. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.