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It doesn’t help that I have seven brothers. That’s too many.
philosophy is harder when you’re cold and hungry.
She was killed trying to stop the raiders from stealing the head of Victory. It sounded almost too symbolic to be true.
It wasn’t fair. I wanted to grieve for my mother, not to have to worry about helping my father cope.
“Old men and children,” Phaedrus said dismissively. Ficino laughed. “What better explorers could there be?
Equal significance means letting people make their own choices. But it’s so difficult!
“Plato says young people shouldn’t learn rhetoric, it makes them contradict their elders before they have wisdom,” I pointed out.
I was astonished. “How could they lose Troy?” “There’s a lot of history.
“What, I have to run entry-level divinity classes now?
“What are heretics anyway?” “People who think the wrong thing about God and Yayzu,” she said. My eyes met Erinna’s and we both grimaced. “And this seemed like such a nice place,” she said.
“One thing I have learned about grief,” I said to her, “is that nothing anyone says to you is useful, but it can still be comforting sometimes to know you’re not alone and not the only person who cares about missing them.
He was sincere, which wasn’t to say he was correct.
“A place women can be excellent, eh?” Zeus said, punning on my name of course, not even the king of gods and men was above that.
“A new world won’t be an empty blank any more than ten-year-olds are,” Maia said.
