It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.
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More Rick Riordan Quotes
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Be careful of love. It’ll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.
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Knowledge of any value can’t be given. It must be sought and earned
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I’ve been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain,” she said. “Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you’re going to save the world, I’m the best person to keep you from messing up.
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Wisdom’s daughter walks alone, The mark of Athena burns through Rome.
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We were just looking at maps.
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I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the back row who normally don’t pick up a book are engaged with what I’m writing, along with the kids who are big readers anyway, then I really feel like I’ve done my job.
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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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Brother,” Artemis chided. “You do not help my Hunters. You do not look at, talk to, or flirt with my Hunters. And you do not call them sweetheart.
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Don’t decide yet,” Hephaestus advised. “Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.
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Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.
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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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If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
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Hope survives best at the hearth.
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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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Just remember if we get caught, you’re deaf and I don’t speak English.
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