Knowledge of any value can’t be given. It must be sought and earned
RICK RIORDANLike some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to “‘clean'” it, and suddenly you can’t find anything?
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Always, Always have a plan
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I have more ideas than I’ll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.
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You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind.” -Hera, goddess of marriage
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Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.
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Tell the sun and stars hello for me.
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Humans see what they want to see.
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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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Desjardins was literally fuming. His tattered robes still smoked from battle. (Carter says I shouldn’t mention that his pink boxer shorts were showing, but they were!)
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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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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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Don’t decide yet,” Hephaestus advised. “Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.
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Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.
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Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations
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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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Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
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