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“A patch of glowing white hair appeared over the ridge, then a familiar grinning face with pure silver eyes. “Bob?” Annabeth was so happy she actually jumped. “Oh my gods!” “Friends!” The Titan lumbered toward them. The bristles of his broom had been burned off. His janitor’s uniform was slashed with new claw marks, but he looked delighted. On his shoulder, Small Bob the kitten purred almost as loudly as the pulsing heart of Tartarus. “I found you!” Bob gathered them both in a rib-crushing hug. “You look like smoking dead people. That is good!”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

“True,” said Nickolai. “But they know what you are too, Sankta Zoya.”
“Do not call me that.”
“It has a nice ring to it,” said Tamar.
“Our Lady of Dragonfire?” suggested Nadia.
“Sweet scaly vengeance?” said Genya.
Zoya turned her back on them all and strode towards the tents. “I’m going to go live in a cave.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Is it the shadow inside you that makes you brave?"
"I should hope not. I was making bad decisions long before that thing showed up.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Sorry. That’s the name of the boy who poured glue on you at day care, right?” “He poured glue on everybody,” said Batty darkly.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks at Point Mouette