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“We should free them," Meg said.
"That would be a very bad idea," Nico said.
Meg frowned. "Do you hate cows?"
"I don't hate—" Nico paused. "Well, okay, I'm not super fond of cows.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero

“Two hundred and ten
Is a lot of haiku, but
I can do more if —
(*insert the sound of a god being strangled here*)”
― Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero

“To be honest though, I could no longer consider my time on Earth to have been a punishment. Terrible, tragic, nearly impossible . . . yes. But calling it a punishment gave Zeus too much credit. It had been a journey — an important one I made myself, with the help of my friends. I hoped . . . I believed that the grief and pain had shaped me into a better person. I had forged a more perfect Lester from the dregs of Apollo. I would not trade those experiences for anything.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero

“I considered that perhaps courage was a self-perpetuating cycle, like abuse. Nero had hoped to create miniature, tortured versions of himself because that made him feel stronger. Meg had found the strength to oppose him because she saw how much her foster siblings needed her to succeed, to show them another way... All any of us could do was try, and hope that, in the end, the virtuous cycle would break the vicious one.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero