Megan Whalen Turner: Quotes about God

“If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.”

“Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.”

“And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.”

“Because not wanting the prize the gods have arranged for you - that just might offend the hell right out of them.”

“We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I think, is a different thing entirely, difficult for anyone but the historians and the gods to judge.”

“He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick.”

“That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That’ll teach me to go hide in a temple.”

“If Attolia could look like a queen, Eugenides was like a god revealed, transformed into something wholly unfamiliar, surrounded by the cloth-of-gold bedcover like a deity on an altar, passionless and calculating.”

“In my experience, the more you know of the gods, the more you know what you cannot understand.”

“Nothing mortals make lasts; nothing the gods make endures forever.”