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“Hermes gazes up at the stars. 'My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

“Life makes us so fragile and anesthetizes us too.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

“The effort to ward off intrusive symptoms, though self-protective in intent, further aggravates the PTSD, for the attempt to avoid reliving the trauma too often results in a narrowing of consciousness, a withdrawal from engagement with others, and an impoverished life.”
― Judith Lewis Herman MD, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“Not all powers are spectacular.' Hestid looked at me. 'Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian