Maggie

“I think the people we love can be cruel. Our love doesn't absolve them. Nor should it.
"What kind of person are you," Edei whispered, "if you love someone who is cruel?"
It was a question Io had often asked herself. She opened her mouth, closed it. Tried again. "You're someone who loves. That's it. That's the only part that's yours to give and yours to take.”
― Kika Hatzopoulou, Threads That Bind

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

“You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times.
There's life in a nutshell.”
― Bear Grylls, Mud, Sweat and Tears

“I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune