Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I’d known what was coming, I would’ve called in sick. I could’ve avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness. But no, I had to take my stupid English exam.
RICK RIORDANIs 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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You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.
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The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.
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Ma’at demands a leader.” “Yeah so I’ve heard.
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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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We were just looking at maps.
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If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
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A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention.
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Things will work out – maybe just not the way you plan
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Knowledge of any value can’t be given. It must be sought and earned
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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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People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed.
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Frank nodded grimly. “Well…any goddess who throws a Ding Dong at a giant can’t be all bad. Let’s go.
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We choose to believe in Ma’at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That’s what Egypt is all about.
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Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.
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