greek

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eab7498	Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.	humor sorry greek percy-jackson mythology	Rick Riordan
14b9047	"She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.	kiss god greek gods	Rick Riordan
7a18a65	Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.	free-will god p20 greek goddess consumerism	Chuck Palahniuk
5a3ade7	It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.	half jupiter camp greek neptune son jackson percy rome	Rick Riordan
6e8e933	"About five meters ahead, Nico was swinging his black sword with one hand, holding the scepter of Diocletian aloft with the other. He kept shouting orders at the legionnaires, but they paid him no attention. Of course not, Frank thought. He's [...] Jason's face was already beaded with sweat. He kept shouting in Latin: "Form ranks!" But the dead legionnaires wouldn't listen to him, either. [...] "Make way!" Frank shouted. To his surprise, the dead legionnaires parted for him. The closest ones turned and stared at him with blank eyes, as if waiting for further orders. "Oh, great..." Frank mumbled."	legionnaires roman greek heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson frank-zhang house-of-hades jason-grace legion nico-di-angelo rick-riordan	Rick Riordan
a4fdc5a	"Very good, Jason Grace," Notus said. "You are a son of Jupiter, yet you have chosen your own path- as all the greatest demigods have done before you. You cannot control your parentage, but you choose your legacy."	heroism roman legacy self greek hero heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson house-of-hades jason-grace rick-riordan	Rick Riordan
07154bc	"I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic." That REALLY didn't sound good. "What do you mean?" I asked. "what OTHER GODS?" "I don't know, Sadie. But Egypt has always faced challenges from outside -- magicians from elsewhere, even gods from elsewhere. Just be vigilant." ~Ruby & Sadie Kane about...? Possibly Greeks?"	ruby-kane greek gods sadie-kane	Rick Riordan
e9a2b03	The wine god sighed. 'Oh Hades if I know. But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.' He left me alone to think about that. And as I watched Clarisse and Chris singing a stupid campfire song together, holding hands in the darkness, where they thought nobody could see them, I had to smile.	kindness inspirational wine-god greek-mythology greek-gods smile greek gods percy-jackson	Rick Riordan
08a5df9	You're probably wondering: why were Medusa's kids a golden warrior and a winged horse? And how had they been stuck in Medusa's body all those years?Heck, I dunno. I'm just telling you how it was. You want stuff to make sense, you're in the wrong universe	universe funny percy-jackson-s-greek-heroes pj pjo greek-heroes greek medusa percabeth percy-jackson rick-riordan	Rick Riordan
51cc040	Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!	humor public-service-announcement greek mythology safety	Rick Riordan
a0cc16f	In that moment, he chose Greek. He threw in his lot with Camp Half-Blood-and the horses changed. The storm clouds inside burned away, leaving nothing but red dust and shimmering heat, like mirages on the Sahara.	the-house-of-hades greek heroes-of-olympus jason-grace rick-riordan	Rick Riordan
48b0878	"Much later, when I discussed the problem with	problem science blunder cosmological-constant einstein greek physics	George Gamow
0c9501e	"I left them to it, the pointing of fingers on maps, the tracing of mountain villages, the tracks and contours on maps of larger scale, and basked for the one evening allowed to me in the casual, happy atmosphere of the taverna where we dined. I enjoyed poking my finger in a pan and choosing my own piece of lamb. I liked the chatter and the laughter from neighbouring tables. The gay intensity of talk - none of which I could understand, naturally - reminded me of left-bank Paris. A man from one table would suddenly rise to his feet and stroll over to another, discussion would follow, argument at heat perhaps swiftly dissolving into laughter. This, I thought to myself, has been happening through the centuries under this same sky, in the warm air with a bite to it, the sap drink pungent as the sap running through the veins of these Greeks, witty and cynical as Aristophanes himself, in the shadow, unmoved, inviolate, of Athene's Parthenon. ("The Chamois")"	tavern greek	Daphne du Maurier
f911983	Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in classical Greek drama he'd never had to understood before, how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made...	love greek	Philip Roth
1a20e7f	Lefty, who'd been observing all the ways Greece had been handed down to America, arrived now at where the transmission stopped. In other words: the future. He stepped off to meet it. Desdemona, having no alternative, followed.	lefty greek greece	Jeffrey Eugenides
23323af	"Khoris mellon to paron den ekhei kamia axia, einai san na men uparkhei"."	inspirational value greek	José Saramago
1f602bf	"No I do not like blaming. Because for me it's enough if someone is other than bad--not too much out of hand, conscious at least of the justice that helps the city, a healthy man. No I shall not lay blame. Because fools are a species that never ends.	poetry philosophy translation greek	Simonides of Ceos
73fe1e6	<> disse , guardandoci. <>	tragedy philosophy donna-tartt the-secret-history philosophy-quotes philosophy-of-life greek human-nature	Donna Tartt

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

humor sorry greek percy-jackson mythology

Rick Riordan

14b9047

"She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.

kiss god greek gods

Rick Riordan

7a18a65

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.

free-will god p20 greek goddess consumerism

Chuck Palahniuk

5a3ade7

It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

half jupiter camp greek neptune son jackson percy rome

Rick Riordan

6e8e933

"About five meters ahead, Nico was swinging his black sword with one hand, holding the scepter of Diocletian aloft with the other. He kept shouting orders at the legionnaires, but they paid him no attention. Of course not, Frank thought. He's [...] Jason's face was already beaded with sweat. He kept shouting in Latin: "Form ranks!" But the dead legionnaires wouldn't listen to him, either. [...] "Make way!" Frank shouted. To his surprise, the dead legionnaires parted for him. The closest ones turned and stared at him with blank eyes, as if waiting for further orders. "Oh, great..." Frank mumbled."

legionnaires roman greek heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson frank-zhang house-of-hades jason-grace legion nico-di-angelo rick-riordan

Rick Riordan

a4fdc5a

"Very good, Jason Grace," Notus said. "You are a son of Jupiter, yet you have chosen your own path- as all the greatest demigods have done before you. You cannot control your parentage, but you choose your legacy."

heroism roman legacy self greek hero heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson house-of-hades jason-grace rick-riordan

Rick Riordan

07154bc

"I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic." That REALLY didn't sound good. "What do you mean?" I asked. "what OTHER GODS?" "I don't know, Sadie. But Egypt has always faced challenges from outside -- magicians from elsewhere, even gods from elsewhere. Just be vigilant." ~Ruby & Sadie Kane about...? Possibly Greeks?"

ruby-kane greek gods sadie-kane

Rick Riordan

e9a2b03

The wine god sighed. 'Oh Hades if I know. But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.' He left me alone to think about that. And as I watched Clarisse and Chris singing a stupid campfire song together, holding hands in the darkness, where they thought nobody could see them, I had to smile.

kindness inspirational wine-god greek-mythology greek-gods smile greek gods percy-jackson

Rick Riordan

08a5df9

You're probably wondering: why were Medusa's kids a golden warrior and a winged horse? And how had they been stuck in Medusa's body all those years?Heck, I dunno. I'm just telling you how it was. You want stuff to make sense, you're in the wrong universe

universe funny percy-jackson-s-greek-heroes pj pjo greek-heroes greek medusa percabeth percy-jackson rick-riordan

Rick Riordan

51cc040

Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!

humor public-service-announcement greek mythology safety

Rick Riordan

a0cc16f

In that moment, he chose Greek. He threw in his lot with Camp Half-Blood-and the horses changed. The storm clouds inside burned away, leaving nothing but red dust and shimmering heat, like mirages on the Sahara.

the-house-of-hades greek heroes-of-olympus jason-grace rick-riordan

Rick Riordan

48b0878

"Much later, when I discussed the problem with

problem science blunder cosmological-constant einstein greek physics

George Gamow

0c9501e

"I left them to it, the pointing of fingers on maps, the tracing of mountain villages, the tracks and contours on maps of larger scale, and basked for the one evening allowed to me in the casual, happy atmosphere of the taverna where we dined. I enjoyed poking my finger in a pan and choosing my own piece of lamb. I liked the chatter and the laughter from neighbouring tables. The gay intensity of talk - none of which I could understand, naturally - reminded me of left-bank Paris. A man from one table would suddenly rise to his feet and stroll over to another, discussion would follow, argument at heat perhaps swiftly dissolving into laughter. This, I thought to myself, has been happening through the centuries under this same sky, in the warm air with a bite to it, the sap drink pungent as the sap running through the veins of these Greeks, witty and cynical as Aristophanes himself, in the shadow, unmoved, inviolate, of Athene's Parthenon. ("The Chamois")"

tavern greek

Daphne du Maurier

f911983

Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in classical Greek drama he'd never had to understood before, how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made...

love greek

Philip Roth

1a20e7f

Lefty, who'd been observing all the ways Greece had been handed down to America, arrived now at where the transmission stopped. In other words: the future. He stepped off to meet it. Desdemona, having no alternative, followed.

lefty greek greece

Jeffrey Eugenides

23323af

"Khoris mellon to paron den ekhei kamia axia, einai san na men uparkhei"."

inspirational value greek

José Saramago

1f602bf

"No I do not like blaming. Because for me it's enough if someone is other than bad--not too much out of hand, conscious at least of the justice that helps the city, a healthy man. No I shall not lay blame. Because fools are a species that never ends.

poetry philosophy translation greek

Simonides of Ceos

73fe1e6

<> disse , guardandoci. <>

tragedy philosophy donna-tartt the-secret-history philosophy-quotes philosophy-of-life greek human-nature

Donna Tartt