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"'No, no, Maia! Ashamed of looking like a mortal! Ashamed of being a mortal.'
'But how could you help that?'
'Dont you think the things people are most ashamed of are the things they cant help?'"

"I did not know then, however, as I do now, the strongest reason for distrust. The gods never send us this invitation to delight so readily or so strongly as when they are preparing some new agony. Or they're bubbles; they blow us big before they prick us."

"I've said not long before that work and weakness are comforters. But sweat is the kindest creature of the three. Far better than philosophy as a cure for all sorts."

"My country, the place where i ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but going back. All my life the god of the mountain has been wooing me. Oh, look up once at least before the end and wish me joy. I am going to my lover, do you not see now?"

"Oh, Orual-to take my, love for you, because you know it goes down to my very roots and cannot be diminished by any other newer love, and then make of it as tool, a weapon, a thing of policy and master, an instrument of torture-I begin to think I never know you. Whatever comes after, something that was between us dies here" p.165

Loving the lines and dialogues about love weaved throughout the book.