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"Nico remembered something Jason Grace had told him in the palace of Notus: Maybe it's time you come out of the shadows. If only I could, he thought. For the first time in his life, he had begun to fear the dark, because he might melt into it permanently."

"I say there is no darkness but ignorance."

"I will see you again,' Hades promised. 'I will prepare a room for you at the palace in case you do not survive. Perhaps your chambers would look good decorated with the skulls of monks.' 'Now I can't tell if you're joking.' Hades's eyes glittered as his form began to fade. 'Then perhaps we are alike in some important ways.' The god vanished."

"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."

"Deep darkness enhances the brightness and beauty of a little lamp."

"I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches I've not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, I've somehow yet to realize that Christmas made both matches and candles forever obsolete."

"During last night's insomnia, as these thoughts came and went between my aching temples, I realised once again, what I had almost forgotten in this recent period of relative calm, that I tread a terribly tenuous, indeed almost non-existent soil spread over a pit full of shadows, whence the powers of darkness emerge at will to destroy my life."
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"I sent a silent prayer up to the Phoenix to keep her safe a little longer, because I would tear the shifters limb for limb until I got my baby sister back."

"You've never had someone you love snatched, I shot back, annoyed by her ignorance. 'Any sense of safety kind of bites it after that. You watch your back because no one else can."

"Shards flew everywhere, slicing her hands, her forearm, and cascading to the floor like snow glistening on a winter morning."

"Better to leave with good memories than have the last ones be the embarrassing, smoking ruin of what once had been a fantastic friendship."

"Ignore the reek of feces in the air, the bloodstains on the ground, and you have yourself a glorious night."

"He might have perfect form and better swordsmanship, but I had one thing on my side that stacked the deck in my favor. I was absolutely crazy."

"Now, now. I placed a hand on his back. 'Jealousy colors you black, Geoff. If you wanted to be a pretty princess too, I would have bought you a crown. I'll be back soon."

"The rest of them looked proper when they did it, but somehow Edward made even this gesture appear like in seconds he'd rip off her corset and do away with her skirt."
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