They know they’ve won,” Carter guessed. “They’re making a show of it.” “Yes,” Amos said. “Well, let’s blow up the boats or something!” I said. Amos looked at me. “Is that your strategy, honestly?
RICK RIORDANPeople are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed.
More Rick Riordan Quotes
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Just remember if we get caught, you’re deaf and I don’t speak English.
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It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.
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If I’m going to burn, it might as well be bright.
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Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded. Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control traffic.” You both sound like my mother,” I said. Shut up!” they both said in union.
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Frank stared at him. “Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hurricanes-and it’s unfair that I can be an elephant?” Percy considered. “Okay. I guess you got a point. But the next time I say you’re totally beast-” “Just shut up,” Frank said. “Please.” Percy cracked a smile.
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Everybody loves to show up at the party once all the hard work is done.
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If anybody felt worse than I did, it was Amos. I had just enough magic to turn myself into a falcon and him into a hamster (hey, I was rushed!)
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Don’t decide yet,” Hephaestus advised. “Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.
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The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.
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Sadie,” he said forlornly, “when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children’s.
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It’s always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.
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You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind.” -Hera, goddess of marriage
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Young people don’t always do what they’re told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.
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But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.
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Wisdom’s daughter walks alone, The mark of Athena burns through Rome.
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