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(Everyone should have at least one friend with a movie star parent.)
On the other hand, I knew that Roman-legion punishments could be harsh. They often involved whips, chains, and rabid live animals, much like an Ozzy Osbourne concert circa 1980.
You have conversations like this with your brain, don’t you? It’s completely normal, right?
That may sound pathetic to you—like an oldies concert cruise, pandering to over-the-hill fans of washed-up bands. But what can I say? Nostalgia is one ailment immortality can’t cure.
had never been a fan of felines. They were self-centered, smug, and thought they owned the world. In other words…All right, I’ll say it. I didn’t like the competition.
Nothing is quite so disconcerting as having science explained to you by a supernatural creature.
“You ready for your quest?” he asked. “Is the answer to that question ever yes?” “Good point.”
You know how it is with prophecies. The harder you try to avoid them, the harder you fail.”
Her expression was unreadable, like the outer surface of an explosive device.
When the human brain experiences something too violent and frightening to process, it just stops recording. Minutes, hours, even days can be a complete blank in the victim’s memory.
This was how it ended, I thought bitterly. Not fighting threats from the outside, but fighting against the ugliest side of our own history.
bet Gregorix was wishing he’d pursued that business degree his mom always wanted him to get. Being a barbarian bodyguard was mentally exhausting.
hadn’t come here to run away on command. I could do that quite well on my own.
Caligula’s breastplate looked like it had been coated with glue, then rolled through the display cases at Tiffany & Co.
He wobbled like a 1975 Elvis.
Each person’s grief has its own life span; it needs to follow its own path.
I knew all the usual responses to mortal complaints about the unfairness of dying. Death is part of life. You have to accept it. Life would be meaningless without death. The deceased will always be alive as long as we remember them. But as a mortal, as Jason’s friend, I didn’t find much comfort in those thoughts.
Harpocrates the Ptolemaic god of silence and secrets, a Greek adaptation of Harpa-Khruti, Horus the Child, who was often depicted in art and statuary with his finger held up to his lips, a gesture symbolizing childhood
