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Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.

Rick Riordan

It isn’t easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed. -Hephaestus
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Always Being Bitter Brilliant Easy Horrible Inventor Make Mistake Misunderstand
You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.
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Compell Else Matter Mothing Write
See you on the other side. -Percy Jackson
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Country Other People Person See Sode
Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. “Hang on. What about traps?” He frowned. “Traps?” “Didn’t Egyptian tombs have traps?” “Well…sometimes. But this isn’t a tomb. Besides, more often they had curses, like the burning curse, the donkey curse—” “Oh, lovely. That sounds so much better.
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Arm Country Down Frown Grab Hang People Person Start Trap
Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.
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Brave Enough Hero Invincible Mean Needed
Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?
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Embraces Ever Form Must Notice Parent People Second
I don’t care what your nose says! The last time you smelled half-blood, it turned out to be a meatloaf sandwich!” “Meatloaf sandwiches are good! But this is a half-blood scent, I swear. They are on board!” “Bah, your brain isn’t on board!
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Blood Care Half Last Meatboat Nose Sandwich Say Smell Time
Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.
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Now Sometimes Strength Wisdom
Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations
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Despair Expectation Hero Rarely
Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I’d known what was coming, I would’ve called in sick. I could’ve avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness. But no, I had to take my stupid English exam.
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Call Christmas Come Idea Known Sick Underworld
The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.
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Dangerous Flaw Good Moderation Most
It’s hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.
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Enjoy Feel Hard Joke Like One Practical Whole
The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.
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Choice Easy Ever Hardly Right
Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.
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Beginm Say Believe Country Morning New Power Sunrise World
Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
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All Feeling Go Heart Lose Sorrow Tell
You do know how to play pinochle?” Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. “I’m afraid not,” I said. “I’m afraid not, sir,” he said. “Well,” he told me, “it is, along with gladiator fighting and Pac-Man, one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. I would expect all civilized young men to know the rules.
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Afraid Pinochle Play Sir Suspicious Told Well

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