Luna

“Where's your binder?" Teo asked.
Xio gave him a confused look, his hand automatically moving to his chest.
"No, I mean with the trading cards and stuff," Teo corrected.”
― Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials

“There was that word again: human, which not long ago I would have considered a terrible insult. Now, every time I heard it, I thought of Jason Grace’s admonition: Remember what it’s like to be human. He hadn’t meant all the terrible things about being human, of which there were plenty. He’d meant the best things: standing up for a just cause, putting others first, having stubborn faith that you could make a difference, even if it meant you had to die to protect your friends and what you believed in. These were not the kind of feelings that gods had…well, ever. Sally Jackson meant the term in the same way Jason had—as something worth aspiring to.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero

“All any of us could do was try, and hope that, in the end, the virtuous cycle would break the vicious one.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb

“You cannot change a tyrant by trying to out-ugly him. Meg could never have changed Nero, any more than I could change Zeus. I could only try to be different than him. Better. More…human. And to limit the time I spent around him to as little as possible.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero