The Things Gods Break

“It’s like everything just…fits. Even after eternity together.”

“Break my trust, even once, and I’ll throw you down here and forget where I put the key or that you even exist.”

“If it’s a fight you want, brother, then you’ve got it.”

“I have the strangest sense, my star, that you are going to be trouble.”

“My son told me that some things, no matter if they are destined to face imminent doom, are too precious not to be protected.”

“Satisfaction. Possessiveness. My Hades would have looked at me in the same way.”

“I know you, Hades. You can’t burn down the world, because you love me, and that would hurt me. You would never hurt me. Not if you could help it. That’s why you hate what you’re doing to…her…me…for the Crucible.”

“This place is a mind fuck, and that might be the most dangerous part of it.”

“Because, my star… I know your taste, your feel under my hands, the sounds you make. Not even Aphrodite herself could imitate those elements that are so completely, elementally you. Not to me.”

“What you’re seeing—the veils over their faces—means someone very powerful must have glamoured our children.”

“Oh, and stay away from the cracks of broken time. If you do or say the wrong thing to someone from the past, you’ll reset time for everyone.”

“My judgment is that you were the only god protecting humanity when the rest of your siblings would have trampled over humans like giants clomping through anthills.”

“Just so long as you realize that there are things I can’t tell you and questions I can’t answer, and it’s not because I’m breaking trust.”

“You’ve seen the truth. You’ve seen what they want to do to us. They will end us if we don’t stop them. End the mortals, too.”

“No matter when, no matter how, I love you. I love everything about you—the way you care, the way you fight, the way you make me laugh with a dark sense of humor that matches my own, your strength, the way you kiss and do a whole lot of other things, even the way you keep secrets for my own good. But especially the way you love.”

“I can’t get us out of this place on my own. Not without help. If you need to freak out, then take a moment and freak the fuck out. But you only get a moment.”

“Only the god who places it can see the veil, Lyra… I believe you are now the goddess of glamours, with the ability to see them, no matter the source. Probably to manipulate them at some point.”

“Some fates are bound to a specific event or action. Maybe that’s you. Boone has made many things here different. Maybe the two of you together is the reason you get out.”