The noise around me blurs, and all I can focus on is his lips and breath and presence.

From the necks up... well, whoever said two heads are better than one never met a hydra.

My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.

Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?

He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.

The Bane...where coxswain's dirtand seaman's shirtsbrushed bawdily upon her chest...

Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?

the dank night is sweeping down from the skyand the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.

He saw her eyes bright as stars; he saw her lips, and was not satisfied with only seeing them.

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.

Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.