Daydreaming subverts the world.
He issued orders to us: demigods who come to us for aid are no longer to be tolerated. We are to crush your little mortal faces. ' There was an uncomfortable silence. 'That sounds. . . extreme,' Jason ventured.
Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.
The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.
Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.
It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.
Just because you don't see me doesn't mean I wasn't there
In trading with each other cities can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another. Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This is one of the terrible things about empires. Empires want them only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.
Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most powerful, not even just the majority. Libraries serve everyone.
Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat.
It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society is based on both a politics and history that have been disguised as a solid society of solid male poems, a solid written language, fixed rules of how to write literature, and a narrative language.