Extraits

You do not know sacred until you lose your purpose.

It is a worrying thought that the monsters may actually have been heroically fighting

'Do you miss it?'

'Miss where?'

'Olympus. Being a God.'

'Sometimes. When the moon is full enough to look like a silver coin. When my feet ache like a mortal's after running for a time too short. You?'

'No. Never.'

'You were always the most human one of us.'

my family made me the guardian of Elysian and hell, until you stepped into my world like a galaxy bursting in front of an astronomer's telescope.

And one day, Aphrodite, who was unable to see their torment or his, asked him, 'Why, why are you like this?'

'Because,' he whispered helplessly, almost to himslef,

'I don't know how to survive my immortality being anything else.'

'It was you, wasn't it? It was always you. Why didn't you tell me?'

His smile was both rueful and soft all at once. 'You never asked.'

'It is good to see you, Calliope. Would you like to join me for a drink ?'

Her hand gently settling on his as it touched her skin. She looks at her watch and wmiles. 'Why not? We only have forever.'

She, who rewards wisdom and bravery ;

when my daughter asks how to fight monsters

Athena is who I will tell her to look for.

I will take her to the library, and introduce her to every librarian because they are where Athena lives now.

That's why you did it, didn't you, Athena ?

When you couldn't find a place of solitude, you built it, the first ever library - the library of Alexandria.

'I hope you are loved in the way you deserve.'

Depending on who you are, and what you have done, those words could be the kindest wish or the worst curse.