"Can you not see that we still might win? We lost a battle, not a war."
- Karen Essex
"He did not smile. 'We are the keepers of the world's greatest treasures. Does that mean nothing to you?' "My children are my greatest treasures,' she said. 'Stone no matter how old, means nothing to m..."
"I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened."
"Mother Astarte who creates and destroys. Kybele, goddess of all that is, was, and ever shall be,” he invoked."
"Perfection does not take into account the viewer.' Pheidias had once said to me. 'It exists on it own, independent of and unconcerned with opinions or utility."
"I was a married woman! she said. Why does every generation believe it is the discoverer of pleasure? Your father was a spectacular lover. Even through the wall, I could hear the triumph in her voice."
"Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done."
"Are you ready to be rejoined for all time with your fellow gods? Oh yes, she explained, For not only was he a god, but so were all mortals gods in disguise, divorced from their divine lineage, their t..."
"The merciful man is rarely victorious. One's enemies are like snakes; though one may learn to handle them, they are always poisonous."
"Simplicity! He is as simple as a spider's web."