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.
RICK RIORDANYou do know how to play pinochle?” Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. “I’m afraid not,” I said. “I’m afraid not, sir,” he said. “Well,” he told me, “it is, along with gladiator fighting and Pac-Man, one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. I would expect all civilized young men to know the rules.
More Rick Riordan Quotes
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The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.
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It’s hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.
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The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.
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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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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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Knowledge isn’t always good for you.
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Don’t decide yet,” Hephaestus advised. “Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.
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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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You are one freaking awesome baboon.
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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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Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.
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Humans see what they want to see.
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Can we just call them storm spirits?” Leo asked. “Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drinks.
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Our baboon was going completely sky goddess – which is to say, nuts.
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Young people don’t always do what they’re told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.
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