People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed.
RICK RIORDANIt’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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Our baboon was going completely sky goddess – which is to say, nuts.
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Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It has to be dealt with, even embraced.
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Think positive girl, or the world ends.
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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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Getting something and having the wits to use it…those are two different things.
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Percy looked at his friends. “I’m getting tired of this guy’s shirt.” “Combat time?” Piper grabbed her horn of plenty. “I hate wonder bread,” Jason said. Together, they charged.
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No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.
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Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.
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Ma’at demands a leader.” “Yeah so I’ve heard.
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Curse us eh/I’ll make you pay!/I don’t want to rhyme all day!
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Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations
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That’s us,” he said. “Those five nuts right there.” Which one is me?” I asked. The little deformed one,” Zoe suggested. Oh, shut up.
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Love was the most savage monster of all.
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The meeting was like a war council with donuts. Then again, back at Camp Half-Blood they used to have their most serious discussions around the Ping-Pong table in the rec room with crackers and Cheez Whiz, so Percy felt right at home.
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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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