The Things Gods Break

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

“They took me straight to Zeus, almost as if they were afraid to deal with me on their own…No. Not deal with me. If I had to guess, they were afraid of him and what he’d do to them if he found out they’d seen me and hadn’t brought me to him.”

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

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

“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.”

“The only way to open Tartarus, to escape, is for someone who is not a Titan to unseal all seven.”

“I will go with you. Because the last thing a mother would ever want is for her child to regret what they did in a moment of brokenness.”

“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 promise I’m more trouble than even you imagine.”

“The god of death and future King of the Underworld struck down by love at first sight. Aphrodite would be ecstatic if she knew.”

“I’m not the one keeping secrets. Let’s see how long solitude in this place takes to loosen your tongue.”

“Stubborn is kind of adorable on you.”

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

“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.”

“Don’t use me to poke at a god’s facsimile.”

“What I can promise is my heart, no matter where or when I am. And nothing—not time, not death, not the heavens or the hells, not even the Fates—can take it away from you.”

“You, Lyra Keres…are prophesied to be our savior someday. Personally, I’d like for that to be sooner rather than later.”

“I guess I just love getting shocked and drowned over and over. Who knew I had that kink?”