Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner.

Also, I've already won all the awards.

Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things.

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.

The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision

It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only the gods are real.

She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.