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“Life is only precious because it ends, kid.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“Hey!" said the guy in the video. "Greetings from your friends at Camp Half-Blood, et cetera. This is Leo. I'm the..." He looked off screen and yelled: "What's my title? Am I like admiral, or captain, or-"

A girl's voice yelled back, "Repair boy."

"Very funny, Piper," Leo grumbled. He turned back to the parchment screen. "So yeah, I'm...ah..supreme commander of the Argo II. Yeah, I like that! Anyway, we're gonna be sailing towards you in about, I dunno, an hour in this big mother warship. We'd appreciate it if you'd not, like, blow us out of the sky or anything. So okay! If you could tell the Romans that. See you soon. Yours in demigodishness, and all that. Peace out!”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“You can't choose your parentage. But you can choose your legacy.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“I don’t define myself by the boys who may or may not like me”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“Tell the sun and stars hello for me.”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

“Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

“I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster."

End of discussion.The Titan hefted his spear and they continued marching into the gloom.”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

“Because life was fleeting and pointless unless you let yourself enjoy it, savor it, down to its lightest, most insignificant moments.”
― Soman Chainani, One True King

“And Sadie, if you’re out there, please let me know. Because I can’t take another dead girl.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“Girls go missing all the time. And ignorance is bliss. I didn’t want this story because I was afraid. I was afraid of what I wouldn’t find and I was afraid of what I would.
I still am.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“And it begins, as so many stories do, with a dead girl”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“They’re here for your grilled cheese,” I told her.
She fixed me with a look, crossing a leg on the massive armchair she spent most of her time in and raising a single eyebrow at me. “Not unless you changed my secret ingredient to cocaine, they’re not.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“What I can’t let go of is the way I tried just now to tell my mum my world was falling apart, and she left.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“Interviewer: So. Tell me about your mother.
Ezra: You're taping this, right?
Interviewer: Audio only. Camera is faulty.
Ezra: Okay, well for the benefit of the sight-impaired, I am now raising my… oh, dear… yes, it's my MIDDLE finger at Mr. Postgrad here.
Interviewer: Mr. Mason...
Ezra: Now I'm wiggling it.
Interviewer: Terminating interview at 13:58 on 03/19/75.
Ezra: Look at it wiggl-
-audio ends-”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Ezra: And then I said it.
Interviewer; What did he say?
Kady Grant: He said, ‘You picked a hell of a day to dump me, Kades.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Ezra Mason: Yeah. So all hell breaks loose, and Kady is yelling at me and I’m yelling back. All this stuff that’d been building up for the last year and boiling just under the skin. Like, I loved her. I love her. But she had this way of just…It was so stupid. The world is ending all around us and we’re screaming about college applications and commitment and ****. I mean, can you believe that? Interviewer: You’re seventeen, right? Ezra Mason: Almost eighteen. Interviewer: Then yes, I believe it. Ezra Mason: Cold, chum. Real cold.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“I made a joke about needing to see her license and registration. Because, you know, she just ran over a bunch of-
Interviewer: I get it.
Ezra Mason: Right. And then I said. "I'm bleeding," and she said, "Shut up, I'm not talking to you," so I just kinda concentrated on not dying.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Death." Gansey read the bottom of the card. He didn't sound surprised or alarmed. He just read the words like he would read eggs or Cincinnati.
"Great job, Maura," Calla said. Her arms were crossed firmly over her chest. "You going to interpret that for the kid?"
"Possibly we should just give him a refund," Persephone suggested, although Gansey had not yet paid.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Gansey said, "Well, Ned Kelly"
He delivered the nonsensical statement so matter-of-factly that Blue felt abruptly stupid, as if maybe the public school system really was lacking.
Then Adam said, with a glance toward Blue, "Nobody knows who Ned Kelly is, either, Gansey.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“In popular language, middle-class children can be said to have been “born on third base but believe they hit a triple.”
― Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life

“I had a theory that our school was divided
by how we were programmed to live.
There were those of us like
Kitty, Ashok, and Laurel,
careful and contented,
pragmatic and happy.
They existed to wake up tomorrow,
always a new day,
because wasn't that the way we were
supposed to exist
as humans?
To keep living.

Then there were those of us who lived
differently.
Jordan, Miranda, and me.
We charged forward.
We took risks.
We strived for greatness
in every moment,
because every night we fell asleep thinking
this was it;
there wasn't going to be
a tomorrow.

But every morning
when the alarm clock went off,
we would lie in our beds,
shocked
that despite everything we did
the previous day
to run our bodies
into the ground,
we continued
to wake up.

Ben was one of us.
He hid it so well,
and I loved him
and I hated him
for being this way.

He pretended he was happy
when he was sad.
He pretended he didn't care
about anything,
not college,
not grades,
quite often,
not even me.

He pretended everything
would magically work
in his favour.

He denied that he understood me at all.
"Why do you have to study all the time?
Why can't you come over?"
he would plead on the phone.

But he aced the same tests as me.
He studied when no one was looking.
He fretted about his future
when no one was around.
He worried about his worth
alone,
like the rest of us.

pages 229-232”
― Juleah del Rosario, 500 Words or Less

“Dre’s face again fills the screen. “Yahaira told me your
aunty is a healer & that sometimes you help. I thought
starting you a little herb garden might help make you feel more at home.”

Moisture stings my eyes & I nod at Dre.
Then lean over to Yahaira, fake whispering in English,
“Where did you find her?

& is there a clone of her somewhere that I could marry?”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“I press my mouth tight to keep my quivering lip to myself.
& I look at my mother & smile.

Never, ever let anyone see you sweat.
& if my mother paid attention

at a single one of my matches
she knows: when Yahaira Rios smiles

just before she makes a move,
you better watch the fuck out”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“Carline came to offer comfort, but I end up being the one

who wraps a blanket around her when she dozes off,
finishes doing her hair gently so she can sleep in
in the morning, parents her as best I can

before she becomes one. & I remember I have none”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“Over the past few years he’d seen a lot of things: destiny, prophecy, magic, monsters, fate. But he’d never yet run across a coincidence”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."
Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?"
Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?"
"Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam french fries."
Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."
...
I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at me. "I do not understand."
"I want to use the dam water fountain," Grover said.
"And..." Thalia tried to catch her breath. "I want to buy a dam t-shirt.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse

“It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive. After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervous about?"
"Look," I said. "I'm sorry about the band room. I hope they didn't kick you our or anything."
"Nah. They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb."
"Was it hard?" Annabeth asked.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth