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“Gaea?鈥� Leo shook his head. 鈥淚sn鈥檛 that Mother Nature? She鈥檚 supposed to have, like, flowers in her hair and birds singing around her and dear and rabbits doing her laundry.鈥�
鈥淟eo, that鈥檚 Snow White,鈥� Piper said.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

“Schist," said an angry voice from the grass. Hazel raised her eyebrows. "Excuse me?" "Schist! Big pile of schist!”
― Rick Riordan , The Son of Neptune

“She wants you to put on a good show for her, and she doesn鈥檛 care whether you live through it.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“Gaea would have thought it was a stinking world, had she not remembered that she had created it.”
― John Varley, Demon

“I listen only to heroes. You spoke of great deeds when you sang your song. Speak of them now, to leave me forever. Sing to me of your adventures.”
― John Varley, Titan

“You鈥檝e seen the razzle-dazzle; here鈥檚 the bitter reality.”
― John Varley, Titan

“Gaea was short and squat, built like a barrel. Her skin was weathered and brown. She had a nose like a potato. But there were laugh lines around the corners of her eyes and her sensuous mouth.”
― John Varley, Titan

“In clear weather, even the center of Rhea was as bright as an Earthly night with a full moon.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“Perhaps the brains had been totally subservient to Gaea in her youth. She claimed it was so. But today all twelve increasingly went their own way. To accomplish her will, Gaea had to cajole or threaten.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“She spent more and more time dreaming up biological jokes to unleash on the run.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“Gaea had a thousand gifts to bestow.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“Her security system was for her own enjoyment; it amused her for pilgrims to arrive in ignorance.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“It was a measure of her confidence that she rated the danger from Earth slightly below the new danger of the renegade Wizard, and that danger was so small as to be nearly incalculable. But she was a cautious being.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“If I gave the things I have the power to give for free, I would soon be swamped with every mendicant, solicitor, fakir, conjuror, sponger, and just plain bum from Mercury to Pluto.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“What鈥檚 wrong with a few minor enigmas to invest your lives with a little spice?”
― John Varley, Wizard

“Gaea was so God-awful big, and it was so easy to despair.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“You there, whatever your name is, bring a large glass of something cold for the Wizard. Never mind what it is so long as it contains no water.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“A name is just a sound; it has no power over anything.”
― John Varley, Wizard

“Humanoids, androids, homunculi, and a few genuine human beings made their penultimate entrances, signaling it would not be long before the appearance of the Director Herself.”
― John Varley, Demon

“She ignored them; it was their job to anticipate her movements-something they were not always able to do.”
― John Varley, Demon

“She operates by rules. The rule book came from her old movies, and from television, and from fairy stories and myths.”
― John Varley, Demon

“The most important thing you must realize is that she is not the good guy. She knows this and prefers it that way. Does that suggest anything to you?”
― John Varley, Demon

“Gaea had put a lot of thought into the location of each temple. It was her belief that a certain amount of tension among her disciples made for both better discipline and interesting and unplanned events. Most of the events were bloody.”
― John Varley, Demon

“Art can live forever. It鈥檚 a good question as to whether it remains art with no eye to see it, or ear to hear it, but it鈥檚 one of those unanswerable ones, isn't it? A book or a painting or a piece of music ought to live forever. Whereas life can only wobble through its appointed moments, eating and shitting until it runs out of steam. It鈥檚 all rather ugly, really.”
― John Varley, Demon

“Eyes moved constantly from Gaea鈥檚 face to the writing in the sky. Then, when Gaea laughed, it was a signal for a massive eruption of laughter. The human population roared anew as each letter appeared, and each letter redoubled Gaea鈥檚 laughter.”
― John Varley, Demon

“Gaia had personally inspected the outer wall, had scooped up the Great Whites from the moat with her own massive hands, checked all the preparations for siege.”
― John Varley, Demon

“This had all started out as a lot of fun, but she was getting more and more bored with it every day.”
― John Varley, Demon

“She was getting tired of movies, if the truth were told. She was tired of that little brat Adam, and that stinking drunk Chris. Most of all she was tired of waiting for Cirocco Jones to show up.”
― John Varley, Demon

“Gaea fell backwards, and the Universal globe was knocked from its turntable and went rolling down the far side of the wall.”
― John Varley, Demon

“Her mind was a fragmented thing, but she was used to that, knew how to deal with it.”
― John Varley, Demon