Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus.

Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.

I figure the world is basically a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or the capital-G god or whatever. But it chugs along the way it's supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break off and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly... things happen for a reason.

Always, Always have a plan

Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn’t spread quite yet.

Oh, dear Hazel.” Aphrodite folded her fan. “Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness.

Maybe—just maybe—Sadie had my best interests at heart. (I just caught her making faces at me, so maybe not.)