Grace

“And sometimes when you like the gender you’re ‘supposed’ to like, it’s not so clear what’s happening with the others.”
― Dahlia Adler, Cool for the Summer

“I appreciate the offer,’ he said. ‘But my mom told me not to accept curses from strangers.”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

“Annabeth didn’t mean to, but she surged forward. Percy rushed toward her at the same time. The crowd tensed. Some reached for swords that weren’t there. Percy threw his arms around her. They kissed, and for a moment nothing else mattered. An asteroid could have hit the planet and wiped out all life, and Annabeth wouldn’t have cared. Percy smelled of ocean air. His lips were salty. Seaweed Brain, she thought giddily.”
― Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus: Books I-III

“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom