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“Sometimes, you have to flaunt the weird, my friend.

-Alex Fierro”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“Sam chuckled. “She probably won’t be too mad. Go. Get it over with.”
Easy for Sam to say. She knew exactly where she stood in her relationship with Amir. She was happily engaged and never had to worry about secret kisses under blankets because she was a good Muslim girl and would never do such a thing. I, alas, was not a good Muslim girl.”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“I’d been stuck in one gender my whole life. It never bothered me. Now I wondered how that would feel for Alex. The only analogy I could come up with wasn’t a very good one. My second grade teacher, Miss Mengler (aka Miss Mangler), had forced me to write with my right hand even though I was left-handed. She’d actually taped my left hand to the desk. My mom had exploded when she found out, but I still remembered the panicky feeling of being restrained, forced to write in such an unnatural way because Miss Mengler had insisted, 'This is the normal way, Magnus. Stop complaining. You’ll get used to it.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor

“Knowing your fate is one thing. Accepting it is another.”
― Rick Riordan