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Rick Riordan


“I'd made water shoot out of the bathroom fixtures. I didn't understand how. But the toilets responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing.”
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“My mother was gone. The whole world should be black and cold. Nothing should look beautiful.”
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“All we can do, child, is follow our destiny.”
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“Oh, dear Hazel.” Aphrodite folded her fan. “Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness.”
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“No hero is above fear.”
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“No man may be completely invulnerable.”
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“Two farewell gifts," Sadie muttered, "from two gorgeous guys. I hate my life.”
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“Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.”
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“Even Dionysus's welcome-home speech wasn't enough to dampen my spirits. "Yes, yes, so the little brat didn't get himself killed and now he'll have an even bigger head. Well, huzzah for that. In other announcements, there will be no canoe races this Saturday....”
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“Tyson dropped the two warriors he was about to tie into a knot and jogged after us. He jumped on the centaur's back. 'Dude!' the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tyson's weight. 'Do the words "low-carb diet" mean anything to you?”
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“Então deixe-me entender direito – falei. Preciso ir para o mundo inferior confrontar o Senhor dos Mortos.– Confere – disse Quíron.– Para encontrar a arma mais poderosa do universo.– Confere.– E levá-la de volta ao Olimpo antes do Solstício de verão daqui a dez dias.– Isso mesmo.”
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“Quer dizer, era de esperar que o senhor dos titãs tivesse aprendido suas lições eras atrás, quando foi derrubado pelos deuses. Era de se esperar que ser picado em um milhão de pedacinhos e jogado na parte mais escura do Mundo Inferior lhe desse uma dica sutil de que ninguém o queria por perto. Mas não.”
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“A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America? Blinks of an eye...The very oldest root of civilization, at least of Western civilization, is Egypt. Look at the pyramid on the dollar bill. Look at the Washington Monument—the world’s largest Egyptian obelisk. Egypt is still.......very much alive.”
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“It was the heaviest thing I'd ever felt, as if I were being crushed under a thousand trucks. I wanted to black out from the pain, but I breathed deeply. I can do this.”
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“Exquisitely painful, isn't it? Not being sure who you love and loves you? -Aphrodite”
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“Kids are baby goats. They're cute and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids.”
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“Just curious how much I'm going for these days," Leo said. "I mean, I can understand not being as pricey as Percy or Jason, maybe...but am I worth, like, two Franks, or three Franks?”
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“Genius does not excuse evil.”
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“She would always be my biggest what if.”
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“Staplers--- Excellent source of iron”
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“Things will work out - maybe just not the way you plan”
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“Did you bring me a rat?""He has no time for rats, George.""No time for rats? That's just sad.”
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“In a way, it's nice to know there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody toblame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just beenattacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else.”
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“You want her to like you. But when you rescue somebody…it complicates things. Don’t get starry-eyed about somebody you can’t have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who’s really important. Don’t…don’t make my mistakes.”
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“For once, I didn't look back.”
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“Some risks are worth taking, even if it means losing a life.”
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“Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?”
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“As soon as the rocky coast line of the island came into view, I ordered one of the ropes to wrap around Annabeth's waist, tying her to the foremast. "Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself." "Are you trying to tempt me?""Ha-ha.”
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“I'd missed Annabeth probably more than I wanted to admit.”
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“To foreswear romantic love forever. To never grow up, never get married. To be maiden eternally.”
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“Knowledge isn't always good for you.”
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“He put his finger to his lips. I'm incognito. Call me Fred.”
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“I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.”
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“Of course, Annabeth wouldn't be able to breathe, but at the moment, that seemed like a minor problem.”
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“In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. She’d bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena’s, which had led to Mount Olympus’s first reality TV punishment program: 'So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess?' Arachne had lost in a big way.”
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“Oh, my dear! I’m afraid you’ve mistakenme for someone else! My name is Rhea Silvia. I was the mother to Romulus and Remus, thousands of years ago. But you’re so kind to think I look as young as the 1950s.”
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“When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.”“Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?”
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“They chose the olive""They must really like olives""Forget it""Now if she invented pizza that i can understand"-Percy to Annabeth in the lightning theif”
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“you know festus means happy in Latin right? You want us to go save the world on Happy the dragon?"-Jason to Leo in the lost hero”
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“If i fall your catching me" Piper said as she grabbed Jasons arm"Uh...sure" Jason hoped he wasn't blushingLeo stepped out next "Your catching me too superman, but i ain't holding your hand" - The Lost Hero, Aeolus place”
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“Así es. ¿Sabes?, Bianca di Angelo no es la única que tiene un hermano irritante. Ya va siendo hora de que conozcas a mi muy irresponsable gemelo. Apolo. - Artemisa.”
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“But if she'd realized that nine desiccated zombie nymphs would be waiting for her, she never would have come down here.”
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“I woke feeling as if someone had overinflated my head. My eyes weren’t seeing the same things. Out my left, I saw a baboon bum, out my right, my long-lost uncle Amos. Naturally, I decided to focus on the right.”
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“Do you have anything to declare?' the statue asked me. 'Yes. I do have something to declare.' I said. 'I declare this is [dumb]”
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“I concentrated hard and snapped my fingers. "You don't see the sword," I told the girl. "It's just a ballpoint pen." She blinked. "Um . . . no. It's a sword, weirdo.”
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“But (Peresphone) was like, the goddess of flowers." Grover looked offended. "Springtime.”
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“Grover cradeled his laurel sapling in his hands. "Well . . . sure is good to be back together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. Oh, look It's our floor”
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“Hey, ugly!" Annabeth yelled. I hoped she was talking to the giant, not me.”
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“So Beckendorf was pretty popular?" Leo asked. "I mean-before he blew up?”
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“Leo got up and brushed himself off. "I hate that guy". He offered Jason his arm like they should go skipping together."I`m Dylan. I`m so cool, I want to date myself, but I can`t figure out how! You want to date me instead? You`re so lucky!""Leo" Jason said "You`re weird”
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