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“I’d been stuck in one gender my whole life. It never bothered me. Now I wondered how that would feel for Alex. The only analogy I could come up with wasn’t a very good one. My second grade teacher, Miss Mengler (aka Miss Mangler), had forced me to write with my right hand even though I was left-handed. She’d actually taped my left hand to the desk. My mom had exploded when she found out, but I still remembered the panicky feeling of being restrained, forced to write in such an unnatural way because Miss Mengler had insisted, 'This is the normal way, Magnus. Stop complaining. You’ll get used to it.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor

“My family had a lot of things, just not the things that mattered…”
― Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor

“- Aspettiamo qui che spiova, - disse Esaù, - intanto giocheremo ai dadi.
Tirò fuori i dadi e una pila di denari. Denaro io non ne avevo, così mi giocai zufoli, coltelli e fionde e persi tutto.
- Non scoraggiarti, - mi disse alla fine Esaù, - sai: io baro.”
― Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato