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“How do you destroy a people? You take away their culture. And how is that done? You must take their language, their history, their very identity. How would you do that?” I pressed my lips together, then looked up at her. "You ban their books”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire

“The words wouldn't lead to our independence - words, themselves, their very existence, were our independence”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire

“Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced. Without the agony of the last few months, Piper never would have found her best friends, Hazel and Annabeth. She never would’ve discovered her own courage. She certainly wouldn’t have had the guts to sing show tunes to the snake people under Athens.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus