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89b2a2a
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My favorite son!" Gaea cried. "You are awesome! I knew I could count on you, uh... which one are you again?" --
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Rick Riordan |
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42be5e6
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The truth hit him. Jason wasn't quite Roman anymore. His time at Camp Half-Blood had changed him. Reyna had recognized that. Apparently, so did the undead legionnaires. If Jason no longer gave off the right sort of vibe, or aura of a Roman leader...
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heroes-of-olympus
percy-jackson
house-of-hades
jason-grace
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905c657
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You are a half-blood," Zoe Nightshade said. Her accent was hard to place. It sounded old-fashioned, like she was reading from a really old book. "One of thy parents was mortal. The other was an Olympian." "An Olympian athlete?" "No," Zoe said. "One of the gods." "Cool!" said Nico."
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olympian
nico-diangelo
nico-di-angelo
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Rick Riordan |
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f1c5fc0
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I remember something Marcus Aurelius used to tell his son, a quote that later became famous in his Meditations book: Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.
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Rick Riordan |
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e214ba4
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Hearth signed, 'is it talking? I don't read sword lips.'" 'what is he saying?' Jack asked. 'I don't read elf hands"
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Rick Riordan |
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13d56a8
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Annabeth recognized something else in her face, too - in the hard set of her mouth and the deliberate way she raised her chin like she was ready to accept any challenge. Reyna was forcing a look of courage, while holding back a mixture of hopefulness and worry and fear that she couldn't show in public. Annabeth knew that expression. She saw it every time she looked in a mirror.
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Rick Riordan |
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e831307
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You'd think he'd ran out off rocks," I muttered"
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Rick Riordan |
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eaf4fe9
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If I ever become a king, I'm totally going to ask him for an army of giant golden acid-spitting llamas. Okay, sorry. I got distracted again.
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Rick Riordan |
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e66fbdc
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The two of them looked so comfortable together it made Nico glad. But it also it caused an ache in his heart - a ghostly pain, like an old war wound throbbing in bad weather.
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pain
love
nico-di-angelo
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Rick Riordan |
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589965e
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For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across--hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.
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Rick Riordan |
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be3cc73
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Hello!" The girl in the blood-red dress beamed at Leo. "Are you Dionysus?" There was only one answer to that. "Yes!" Leo yelped. "Absolutely. I am Dionysus."
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Rick Riordan |
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8c88135
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Don't worry, kid." Blitz brought out the silken cord. "This rope can't be weakened. And Hearthstone's right. We might as well tie it to one another for safety." "That way if we fall," Sam said, "We'll fall together." "Sold," I said, trying to tamp down my anxiety. "I love dying with friends."
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Rick Riordan |
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aa4e75b
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And flash him!" Annabeth's face reddened. "That came out wrong. But yeah, good idea."
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Rick Riordan |
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8777638
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I wondered if I should start a small fire in Percy Jackson's sink, perhaps burn some bandages in thanks, but I decided that might strain that Jackson's hospitality.
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funny
rick-riordan
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Rick Riordan |
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ba6ebc9
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Travis: I didn't know they made permanent makeup. I looked like a clown for a month. Connor: Yeah. They put a curse on me so that no matter what I wore, my clothes were two sizes too small and I felt like a geek. Travis: You are a geek.
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funny
twins
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Rick Riordan |
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8f03240
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This was a few weeks ago," Annabeth said. "Percy told me a crazy story about meeting a boy our near Moriches Bay. Apparently this kid used hieroglyphs to cast spells. He helped Percy battle a crocodile monsters." "The Sob of Sobek!" Sadie blurted. "But my battled that monster. He didn't say anything about-" "Is your brother's name Carter?" Annabeth asked. An angry golden aura flickered around Sadie's head-a halo of hieroglyphs that resemb..
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humor
the-kane-chronicles
the-son-of-sobek
the-staff-of-serapis
carter-kane
heroes-of-olympus
percy-jackson
sadie-kane
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Rick Riordan |
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6a4702a
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Showers are good. Perhaps not as good as bacon, but good.
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Rick Riordan |
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766e337
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Cacus." I'd had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn't know. It's a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don't see the need. It's easier just to have folks explain stuff."
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Rick Riordan |
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cfe1097
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Meg turned and gazed out the rear windshield, probably checking for any shiny blobs pursuing us. "At least we're not being--" "Don't say it," Percy warned. Meg huffed. "You don't know what I was going to--" "You were going to say, 'At least we're not being followed,'" Percy said. "That'll jinx us. Immediately we'll notice that we are being followed. Then we'll end up in a big battle that totals my family car and probably destroys the whole ..
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jinx
meg-mccaffrey
percy-jackson
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Rick Riordan |
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2edcbab
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Let's see, today is Thor's Day the sixteenth." "You mean Thursday?" "That's what I said. The island will rise on the full moon six days from now, on the twenty-second, which is Woden's Day." "Wednesday?" I asked. "That's what I said." --
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Rick Riordan |
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91d7462
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the best people have the rottenest luck
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Rick Riordan |
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024111e
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As for her charmspeak, she'd gotten so powerful it made Leo nervous. If she told him to eat his vegetables, he might actually do it.
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Rick Riordan |
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b81a3ed
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He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea.
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poseidon
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Rick Riordan |
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57227a6
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Annabeth shook her head. "All these years sneaking around, and we could've just been ourselves?" "You should do that." Alex strolled alongside, back in human form, though he still had a few flamingo feathers stuck in his hair. "And you have to flaunt the weird, my friends." "I'm going to quote you on that," Percy said. "You'd better."
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percy-jackson
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Rick Riordan |
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478309e
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Should I get you a shovel, so you can dig that hole deeper?
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Rick Riordan |
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aa55014
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Whenever he felt like giving up, plopping himself down, and dying (which was, like, every ten minutes), he reached over and took her hand, just to remember there was warmth in the world.
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romance
percy-jackson
house-of-hades
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Rick Riordan |
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1376ea6
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Yeah, my bad," Leo muttered. "I should've crashed on one of the other islands. Oh, wait-there aren't any!" She [Calypso] snarled and kept walking along the edge of the water."
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Rick Riordan |
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eb9d106
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Doughboy, we need to talk." Doughboy opened his wax eyes. "Finally! You realize how stuffy it is in there? At last you've remembered that you need my brilliant guidance." "Actually we need to become a coat."
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Rick Riordan |
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7c6dfd4
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I frowned. "You mean Set's got, like, other evil gods on speed dial?"
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Rick Riordan |
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54ba849
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Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels."
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hope
weasels
iris
the-son-of-neptune
heroes-of-olympus
percy-jackson-and-the-olympians
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Rick Riordan |
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7cebec7
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Monsters,' her dad said, a tear tracing his cheek. 'I live in a world of monsters.
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Rick Riordan |
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46c8760
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Beckendorf closed eyes tight and brought his hand up to his watch. from that distance, the explosion shook the world. Heat seared the back of my head. The Princess Andromeda blew up from both sides, a massive fireball of green flame roiling into the dark sky, consuming everything....I stared out the window into deep blue water. Beckendorf was supposed to go to college in the fall. He had a girlfriend, lots of friends, his whole life ahead o..
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percy-jackson
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Rick Riordan |
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b5598bb
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After all the dangerous adventures I'd had, I couldn't die like this. Sadie would be devastated. Then, once she got over her grief, she'd track down my soul in the Egyptian afterlife and tease me mercilessly for how stupid I'd been.
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Rick Riordan |
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10f3d58
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My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and--oh, yeah--head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare time.
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Rick Riordan |
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c48614d
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June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"
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Rick Riordan |
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b620ad4
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More minions!" he shouted. "Come to me!" That couldn't be good. Another round of giant crocs and we'd be dead. Why don't we get minions? I complained to Horus, but he didn't answer."
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Rick Riordan |
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dea53db
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He just summoned the dead with coke and cheeseburgers
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nico
percy-jackson-and-the-olympians
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Rick Riordan |
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d5b1533
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Ridiculous!" Chrysaor's voice turned shrill. He didn't seem sure where to level his sword-at Percy or his own crew. "Save yourselves!" Percy warned. "It is too late for us!" Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. "Oh, no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!" Nothing happened. "I said," Percy repeated, "Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!" Frank stumbled out of nowhere, making a big show of grabbing his thr..
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Rick Riordan |
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8cfb1f2
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Mr. D," Grover asked timidly, "if you're not going to eat it, could I have your Diet Coke can?"
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Rick Riordan |
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c520c5c
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Some pain shouldn't be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced. Without the agony of the last few months, Piper never would have found her best friends, Hazel and Annabeth. She never would've discovered her own courage. She certainly wouldn't have had the guts to sing show tunes to the snake people under Athens.
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pain
frienship
hurt
piper-mclean
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Rick Riordan |
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94351cd
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Now...well, after what happened in Tartarus, it seemed like Percy had graduated to a totally different level of butt-kickery.
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Rick Riordan |
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506a9a0
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He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.
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humour
fear
leo-valdez
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Rick Riordan |
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a4d81fc
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Suddenly his expression turned to alarm. He sprinted toward us. For a moment I had an absurd vision of myself on the cover of one of Gran's old romance novels, where the damsel wilts into the arms of one half-dressed beefy guy while another stands by,casting her longing looks. Oh, the horrible choices a girl must make! I wished I'd had a moment to clean up. I was still covered in dried river muck, twine, and grass, like I'd been tarred and ..
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Rick Riordan |
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07a5f30
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I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works.
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Rick Riordan |