Agus

“Funny thing, watching gods realize they’ve been mortal all along.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain. She was always demanding of herself, Do I dare? Do I dare disturb the universe? From Prufrock. Her dad revered the poem, I guess, and the entire family lived in answer to it. They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now. Ashley said it was the only way to live.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“Mal snickered.
"What's so funny?"
"I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm