She had to face the fact that she couldn’t protect everyone she loved. She couldn’t solve every problem.
RICK RIORDANGood luck, boss. Don’t let’em turn you into horse meat! (Blackjack)
More Rick Riordan Quotes
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your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos’s traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world.
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Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.
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Never bet against a cat.
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The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation,” she said. “Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.
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A person’s shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows that endured for centuries.
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Desjardins was literally fuming. His tattered robes still smoked from battle. (Carter says I shouldn’t mention that his pink boxer shorts were showing, but they were!)
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Oh, did you expect me to play fair?” Cupid laughed. “I am the god of love. I am never fair.
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Hope survives best at the hearth.
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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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Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. “Leave it to us, Uncle. I’ve got a plan.” “That,” I said, “sounds like very bad news.
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Getting something and having the wits to use it…those are two different things.
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Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.
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Things will work out – maybe just not the way you plan
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A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention.
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I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy.
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