Embarrassment is a weird idea. You can only feel it if someone else lets you know that you’re supposed to. It requires two people.
“Nico laughed, which I didn’t know he was capable of.”
― The Tower of Nero
― The Tower of Nero
“He’s not even interested in the treasure. The whole point is the adventure. At least, for his crew, that’s the point. The last true poets of the sea, he calls them. People for whom discovery—like, the concept of the journey—is the treasure itself.”
― The Last True Poets of the Sea
― The Last True Poets of the Sea
“Ladies and Gentlemen, meet my glow-in-the-dark boyfriend.”
― The Tower of Nero
― The Tower of Nero
“[Nero] jumped off his couch and marched straight toward me, his whole body starting to glow, because Will Solace couldn't have his own thing. Oh, no, Nero had to glow, too.”
― The Tower of Nero
― The Tower of Nero
“He had been born in Mussolini’s Italy. He had survived decades in the time-warp reality of the Lotus Casino. He’d emerged in modern times disoriented and culture-shocked, arrived at Camp Half-Blood, and promptly lost his sister Bianca to a dangerous quest. He had wandered the Labyrinth in self-imposed exile, being tortured and brainwashed by a malevolent ghost. He’d overcome everyone’s distrust and emerged from the Battle of Manhattan as a hero. He’d been captured by giants during the rise of Gaea. He’d wandered Tartarus alone and somehow managed to come out alive. And through it all, he’d struggled with his upbringing as a conservative Catholic Italian male from the 1930s and finally learned to accept himself as a young gay man. Anyone who could survive all that had more resilience than Stygian iron.”
― The Tower of Nero
― The Tower of Nero
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