Luna

“And as anyone can tell you, hatred is one of the most durable emotions, one of the last to fade into nonexistence.”
― 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

“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

“Change is a fragile thing. It requires time and distance. Survivors of abuse , . . . have to get away from their abusers. Going back to that toxic environment was worse thing [someone] could do.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero