Sunaina Deepak

“She extended her hand to show him a Mythomagic figurine on her palm. Zeus. ‘His lightning bolts do six hundred damage,’
Bianca said. ‘He was one of your favourites.’
‘You loved that game,’ said Maria, her dark eyes sparkling beneath the veil. ‘Half the time it was impossible to pull your attention away from it, especially when we moved to the United States.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sun and the Star

“I’ll get you back home, Will Solace,’ Bob said. ‘You saved me. Now it is time for me to save you.’
Nico stirred against his chest. ‘Yeah,’ he said. ‘Let others do the saving, Will.’
Will hugged Nico tight. ‘Shhh, my little ball of darkness,’ he said.
‘We don’t need your sarcasm right now.’
Nico grunted a laugh. ‘You live for my sarcasm.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sun and the Star

“It all came to Will so suddenly then: Nico might have been born to Hades. He might have suffered untold amounts of pain and sorrow. He was at home in darkness.
But that didn’t mean that he couldn’t choose the alternative.
Will knew that for a fact because Nico burned brightly as he fought Nyx, as he dodged her tendrils of smoke and hacked at her body. There was a ferocity in him, a power and a fury that could scorch the galaxy when he battled for those he cared for.
And he was now using it to fight for himself.
Even in the darkest parts of life, there was still … light.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sun and the Star

“He turned back to Gorgyra. ‘A story about what?’ he asked.
The nymph examined Nico’s face, then Will’s. Was she going to pull soul threads out of them again?
Nico felt something brush his knuckles. He glanced down and saw that Will was trying to hold his hand. He opened his fingers and let Will slip his in between.
Nico’s heart sank. Will’s grip was very weak.
Nico had to do this. He had to finish what they had started.
The whispers called out to him.
And then Gorgyra did, too.
‘Tell me about the two of you,’ she said.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sun and the Star