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“No.” Annabeth put her hand on his arm. “If the giants want our blood, the last thing we need is a boy and a girl going down there together. Remember? They want one of each for their big sacrifice.” “Then I’ll get Jason,” Percy said. “And the two of us—” “Seaweed Brain, are you implying that two boys can handle this better than two girls?” “No. I mean...no. But—” Annabeth kissed him. “We’ll be back before you know it.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“But since I want to get the guarded look out of his eyes, I decide to tackle that subject later. For now, I’m going with, “Did you hear the joke about the roof?” “Excuse me?” He lifts a single disdainful brow—which means I have to work really hard to hide how googly-eyed it makes me when he does it. “Never mind.” I give him a cheesy grin. “It’s over your head.” He stares at me, bemused, for several seconds. Then he shakes his head and says, “Somehow, they always get worse.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crave

“The Circle!” she tells me. “They’re here.” “The Circle?” At first, her words don’t make any sense to my sleep-addled brain,”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“My hands curl into fists, my fangs explode in my mouth, and though there were a million other ways I was hoping to break my newfound knowledge to Grace, the words come out before I can even think about stopping them. “Jaxon, if you wouldn’t mind, take your fucking hands off my mate.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush