Lovely War

He bent and kissed her forehead.

and instinctively folded the whole bundle under his coat, to the warmth over his heart.

A series of little explosions began firing throughout her brain, and spread quickly elsewhere

But Hestia could never be . . . Aphrodite.

You’re a brand-new piece of sheet music,” she said slowly, “for a song which, once played, I’d swear I’d always known.”

When do I get to return the kiss you gave me?

Hazel Windicott lived right above the King’s Whiskers. Did that make her, perhaps, a nose?

Did you know food is infinitely more scrumptious when you’re in love?

The most ordinary mortal bodies are housed by spectacular souls.

Goddess, I tell you, you do not fight fair.