Falling down does not make you weak, it makes you sore. Not getting back up means you’re weak.

I have to finish what I started. I’d have had that beast on my spear by now, except for Prince Meleager. He saw me wound it and thought I was in danger. The gods protect me from men who mean well!

Captures the reader with true magic.

History is gossip that’s been legitimized, and that’s really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They’d be right at home on reality tv.

Good energy, even if it’s not focused. Bad technique, but that’s understandable and it can be corrected. Too much enthusiasm. There’s no shame in honorable combat, but there shouldn’t be so much unnatural pleasure. The man with the greatest thirst for blood ends up drinking at Hades’s table.

People give up the earth for beauty.

It’s not enough to be born free; I have to live my freedom!

If I don’t ask for your opinion, I don’t want it.

A young man’s passion, a jaded siren’s last chance for love, a world gone mad, cheap thrills, fast cars, expensive wines, the triumph of victory, the overthrow of ontologically incipient hegemony, and gum! I have no idea if this book has any of them! But I liked the part about the bunny.

Some men were nothing but overgrown boys who never got over the “fun” of teasing girls, just to get noticed.