“The loss is hers. Let her remain in this ugly world, full of diseased and soulless people. While I and the true goddesses soar to Mount Olympus.That's the greatest punishment I can impose on her, after all.”

“Aretmis gripped her bow. “Let us pray I am wrong.”Can goddesses pray?”

“I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.”

“There are many marks of a true lady but I believe that one of them is to walk with her head held high while her world falls apart around her.”

“I want a sword to slit her end to end and then, with one hundred more cuts, dice her body into small pieces and leave the bloodied,quivering remains of skin, muscle, and soulless guts on her front lawn, arranged in a gruesome scarlet letter.”

“Taking away a person's control of her own life - meaning her bank account - is one of the greatest infringements a democracy can impose, especially when it applies to young people. It is an infringement even if the intent may be perceived as benign and socially valid.”