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“Ohmygod. Did hell just freeze over?" - Zoey Redbird when Aphrodite LaFonte tells her parents that Zoey deserves to be leader of the Dark Daughters”
― P.C. Cast, Betrayed

“What are you?” She demanded. “My dad? Osiris? Are you even alive?”
Dad looked at Anubis. “What did I tell you about her? Fiercer than Ammit, I said.”
“You didn’t need to tell me that.” Anubis’s face was grave. “I’ve learned to fear that sharp tongue.”
Sadie looked outraged. “Excuse me?”
― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

“No one really needs me," he says, and there's no self pity in his voice. It's true his family doesn't need him. They will mourn him, as will a handful of friends. But they will get on. Even Haymitch, with the help of a lot of white liquor, will get on. I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.

"I do," I say. "I need you." he looks upset, takes a deep breath as if to begin a long argument, and that's no good, no good at all, because he'll start going on about Prim and my mother and everything and I'll just get confused. So before he can talk, i stop his lips with a kiss.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Do you have a favorite constalation, Percy?'
I was still kind of wondering about the little green snakes he'd shoved into his jogging shorts, but i said. 'Uh, I like Hercules.'
'Why?'
'Well... because he had rotten luck. Even worse than mine. It makes me feel better."
The jogger chuckled. 'Not because he was strong and famouse and all that?'
'No.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters