You should know by now that love is never a weakness, Ares. Love is the mortal world’s greatest strength.

We are humans, they say we are mortals. Though we do live once but can last forever.

Death is every mortal’s life to be alive!

So there was love, once. More than love. And now there is more than hate. Mortals have no words for what we gods feel. Gods have no words for such things. But love like that...

This isn’t the work of our people, Delilah. It’s a corruption of power. The gods are neutral, good and evil manifests in the deeds of mortals.”Or, just maybe– The power is our own and the...

I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries of this city at night and I hear nothing. I walk among mortals and sometimes...

The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem...

I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god…What fools these mortals be.

Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

I met Anne in the autumn… Autumn, that wild season when rural men rack orchard trees with sticks and weep with the desire to kiss faraway Demeter’s supple breasts—to set lips to her travel-swollen eyes....

The only problem with her is that she is too perfect. She is bad in a way that entices, and good in a way that comforts. She is mischief but then she is the warmth...

Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.

The winged beasts and angels know, that mortals cannot fly. But how I flew to see the sun; a broken bird am I.

Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.