The man who won’t marry you because you chose this…

““The man who won’t marry you because you chose this adventure doesn’t deserve you,” Milo said. “A man who truly loves you will understand why you ran away. He’ll know who you really are.” His smile was gone. “And if you can’t love him as much as he loves you, he’ll understand that, too.” “Milo…” I reached out to touch his arm, but just then Tiphys came running up to take back the steering oar. Argus was hot on his tail, calling him and all his ancestors so many foul names that I didn’t know whether to duck out of sight or start memorizing the most impressive ones. “Is this how you treat my beautiful ship?” Argus yelled, bright red in the face. “Trusting her to an inexperienced boy is bad enough, but at this time?” He gestured to the west, where the sun was already beginning to dip below the sea.” Count yourself lucky that I don’t give you a fine view of Aea from the bottom of her harbor!” “Gods above, calm yourself,” Tiphys muttered. “It was only for a moment. No harm was done.” “Why don’t I take you to the roof of the Sun Temple, once we’re ashore, and push you off? You can keep repeating, ‘No harm done, no harm done,’ up to the instant you hit the ground! Of all the miserable, ignorant--!” Argus choked on his own fury. I don’t know how long he would have gone on if a call from the prow hadn’t distracted him.””

— Esther M. Friesner