Ryu

“Hello, Paranoia, My Old Friend”
― Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor

“Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. Whatever influence I ever had over mamma, I lost at the age of three.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“What society judged was not the severity of the disease but the social acceptability of the individuals affected with it…”
― Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

“How did you decide when someone was irretrievably lost—when they were so evil or toxic or just plain set in their ways that you had to face the fact they were never going to change? How long could you keep trying to save them, and when did you give up and grieve for them as though they were dead?”
― Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor