Don't Quote Me On This

I can’t mourn everyone, she thought. No one can

I got no interest in fighting for money. Why the hell would I bash the nuts of someone who ain’t never done anything against me and who I don’t even know?

Fear of staying makes you wanna go, but fear of going makes you wanna stay. Well, shiver me timbers, Captain Complexity.

‘lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we the gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names…well, it usually says more about them than it does about us.'

'Mother likes telling that version of the story,’ he grumbled. ‘Makes her seem more likeable, doesn’t it? Blaming it all on my dad. The truth is, my mother likes families, but she likes a certain kind of family. Perfect families. She took one look at me and…well, I don’t fit the image, do I?’

‘So what’s the moral?’ ‘The moral?’ Hermes asked. ‘Goodness you act like it’s a fable. It’s a true story. Does truth have a moral?’

‘Luke…you’re talking about our parents,’ I said. He laughed. ‘That’s supposed to make me love them? Their precious ‘Western Civilization’ is a disease, Percy. It’s killing the world. The only way to stop it is to burn it to the ground, start over with something more honest.’

The dead aren’t scary. They’re just sad.

‘At camp you train and train. And that’s all cool and everything, but the real world is where the monsters are. That’s where you learn whether you’re any good or not.’

What does it mean to be human? I’m not sure. Maybe being human is being trapped.

'Funny how despair changes one’s perspective'

And if he was being completely honest, he was just looking for a reason to do nothing with his life.

Arthur felt like he was being led somewhere rather than chasing something. Never a good sign.

Mirrors were dangerous things, he remembered from that past life. They called the other side, the darker side. An imperfect reflection stared back, threatening to steal pieces of the soul away forever.

'A trick?' Mr. Dorian asks with a smile. 'The universe plays the best tricks of all.'

The multiverse was unfathomably huge, thought Nurd, but it was still small enough to allow two strangers like Samuel and himself to find each other and become friends.

You can’t prove that something doesn’t exist. You can only prove that something does exist.