If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
RICK RIORDANWisdom’s daughter walks alone, The mark of Athena burns through Rome.
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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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Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked. “No such thing as fair,” Frank told himself. “If I’m going to burn, it might as well be bright.
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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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It’s natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not.
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Think positive girl, or the world ends.
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People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed.
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The world may need fixing, but it’s worth preserving.
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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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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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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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Apollo?” I guessed… He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.” A god named Fred?
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But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.
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I’m a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.
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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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