Jazmin Castro

“You did,’ confirmed Nico. ‘But it was the way you did it. You made it clear that you wanted me around. You said you wanted me to come to the infirmary and help, because … because you could use a “friendly face”.’
‘It was true. And you did help.’
‘You brought me closer instead of rejecting me,’ Nico said, his voice cracking. ‘I’d never been called a friendly face. Ever. You made me rethink everything – my place in camp, my crush on Percy, my future. It took you scolding me like you were the camp director to make me realize that I was … wanted.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sun and the Star

“You're not my type," she tells him plainly.
Micah frowns, like that might just be impossible. "What did your last partner have that I don't?"
"Breasts.”
― Alexandra Christo, Princess of Souls

“Sometimes mortals are not aware of the threads that bind them. You could both be wrong about the first time
you met, and yet the two of you have orbited each other for so long, like heavenly bodies in the sky.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sun and the Star

“(There is nothing more disconcerting than waking in the morning and finding a freshly incarnated zombie standing over you, ready to take your breakfast order.)”
― Rick Riordan, The Sun and the Star