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fd4fa28 Your lifeline...oh, the burning stick. Right." Leo resisted the urge to set his hand ablaze and yell: Bwah ha ha! The idea was sort of funny, but he wasn't that cruel." heroes-of-olympus humor leo-valdez Rick Riordan
aad0aab The old women only stuck around this long out of a sense of duty. Your mom was the same way. That's why I loved her. She put her duty first, ahead of evverything. Rick Riordan
59114ea As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped. percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians sarcasm soul the-last-olympian Rick Riordan
8239fea We, the bones that are here, await yours. Rick Riordan
140c7ee Luke's left side was bloody. His eyes were open--blue eyes, the way they used to be. His breath was a deep rattle. "Good . . . blade," he croaked." luke Rick Riordan
cc75821 Tyson dropped the two warriors he was about to tie into a knot and jogged after us. He jumped on the centaur's back. 'Dude!' the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tyson's weight. 'Do the words "low-carb diet" mean anything to you?" diet humorous tyson Rick Riordan
0a04092 Me, I'm late to meet my girlfriend. Annabeth is going to kill me. Hope you enjoyed the stories. Stay safe out there, demigods. Peace from Manhattan, Percy Jackson Rick Riordan
24ded6a Eat chocolate first, destroy the world later. Rick Riordan
f1fe140 Why won't you drown?" he wailed, pummeling me with his fists. "I'm Poseidon's son," I said. "Curse that upstart! I was here first!" nereus percy-jackson Rick Riordan
54e2912 Then she laughed for real, and put her hands around my neck. 'I am never, ever going to make things easy for you Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.' When she kissed me, I had the feeling my brain was melting right through my body. I could've stayed that way forever, except a voice behind us growled, 'Well it's about time!' Suddenly the pavilion was filled with torchlight and campers. Clarisse led the way as the eavesdroppers charged and hois.. clarisse connor-stoll humour kissing love percy Rick Riordan
7d8e0f5 Leo got up and brushed himself off. "I hate that guy". He offered Jason his arm like they should go skipping together."I`m Dylan. I`m so cool, I want to date myself, but I can`t figure out how! You want to date me instead? You`re so lucky!" "Leo" Jason said "You`re weird" mythology Rick Riordan
2a3fef8 Bloated!" he cried. The corresponding hieroglyph flew through the air, bursting against a demon's chest in a spray of light. Instantly, the demon swelled like a water balloon and rolled screaming down the pyramid. "Flat!" Thoth blasted another demon, who collapsed and shriveled into a monster-shaped doormat. "Intestinal problems!" Thoth yelled. The poor demon who got zapped with that one turned green and doubled over." flat intestinal-problems Rick Riordan
1262e79 WARNING: The following is a transcript of a digital recording. In certain places, the audio quality was poor, so some words and phrases represent the author's best guesses. Where possible, illustrations of important symbols mentioned in the recording have been added. Background noises such as scuffling, hitting, and cursing by the two speakers have not been transcribed The author makes no claims for the authenticity of the recording. It see.. red-pyramid sadie-kane Rick Riordan
f00e008 He raised an eyebrow. "You claim not to know me? Of course I'm Thoth. Also called Djehuti. Also called--" I [Sadie] stifled a laugh. "Ja-hooty?" Thoth looked offended. "In Ancient Egyptian, it's a perfectly fine name. The Greeks called me Thoth. Then later they confused me with their god Hermes. Even had the nerve to rename my sacred city Hermopolis, though we're nothing alike. Believe me, if you've ever met Hermes--" hermes thoth Rick Riordan
11db0ae On a basketball court, five players were in the middle of an intense game. They wore assortment of jerseys from different American teams, and they all seemed keen to win--grunting and snarling at each other, stealing the ball and pushing. Oh...and the players were all baboons. Rick Riordan
4b2ebbe His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries. Erik Larson
379d287 When you find nothing... it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something. J.D. Robb
0aed0fb But Roarke doesn't feel weird about it. He's full of it, the love, I mean. And when he loves me, things that never worked in me did - do. It was easier when they didn't work, but it's better when they do. You know? love J.D. Robb
4e75fe3 Just shut your mouth, you ignorant twat." "Aw, Dallas, he called me a twat. How come you get to be a bitch, but I only get to be a twat." "It's the rank," Eve told her. "You'll make bitch one day." "Thanks. That means a lot to me." eve-dallas peabody J.D. Robb
5d5c3af For heaven's sake," I say, "will you please sip the tea so I don't have to pour you another cup every five minutes?" "We're facing an apocalypse," he replies. "There is not enough tea in the world to calm me." derrick elizabeth-may fae gavin kairan pixies the-falconer Elizabeth May
0c28354 I'm just curious, how'd you get into this line of work?" "Gradually, and then suddenly" Emily St. John Mandel
00f3f26 America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still. Henry Miller
9fbbb17 There's blood, a taste I remember. It tastes of orange popsicles, penny gumballs, red licorice, gnawed hair, dirty ice. Margaret Atwood
3e2d0ff Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain. Margaret Atwood
b90775f I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born Margaret Atwood
335dc35 Except that stopping midsentence is the worst thing people can do. It's like, totally passive-aggressive, because you can't take issue with anything they've said. You have to take issue with what you think they were going to say. Which then they deny. Sophie Kinsella
cc6bd7c She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace... When you see the necklace in the painting, it all makes sense. He loved her. Even if she lived to one hundred and five without ever getting an answer. Sophie Kinsella
a181c42 That's the way it goes. Some things happen and some things don't. This one is obviously just wasn't meant to be. Except deep down... I still believe it was. Sophie Kinsella
b42e63a And is the moment where I went wrong. This is the gut-churning, if-only instant. If I could go back in time, that's the moment I would march up to myself and say severely, "Poppy, ." But you don't realize, do you? The moment happens, and you make your crucial mistake, and then it's gone and the chance to do anything about it is blown away." Sophie Kinsella
56d52c1 Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, "Here! Have them all!" Sophie Kinsella
4332479 People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart. Margaret Atwood
f4f9fda Confia en el tiempo, que suele dar dulces salidas a muchas amargas dificultades... Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
9ad027f In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves! memoir young_adult Marjane Satrapi
f5fd22a I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living. Marjane Satrapi
0d853c2 When you become vulnerable, any ideal or perfect image of yourself falls away. (...) Many people are addicted to perfection, and in their pursuit of the ideal, they have no patience with vulnerability. (...) Every poet would like to write the ideal poem. Though they never achieve this, sometimes it glimmers through their best work. Ironically, the very beyondness of the idea is often the touch of presence that renders the work luminous. Th.. John O'Donohue
64124eb Echo, I can't tell you what's going to happen because I don't know. I don't hold hands in the halway or sit at anyone else's lunch table. But I swear ... on my brothers that you'll never be a joke to me and you'll be much more than a girl in the backseat of my car. Katie McGarry
d1f37d5 Anyway, that's how it is! Either they obey the law, or they're expelled!! And make sure they wear their veils correctly..." - "If hair is as stimulating as you say, then you need to shave your moustache!" My father actually said that." Marjane Satrapi
cbe7f93 Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain. fantasy-literature Robert Jordan
8d8a8cd The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for. Ernest Hemingway
4287db3 The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. Elisabeth Elliot
30ee990 Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God. waiting Elisabeth Elliot
3834141 He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from his home. He'd never been able to trust. He could never give that last small piece - all that was left of his humanity - into someone else's keeping. And now there was Rikki. She let him be whatever he had to be to survive. She didn't ask anything of him. There was no hidden motive. No agenda. Just acceptance. She was different - .. different lovet piece space trust Christine Feehan
2f93d55 Do you have any idea how stubborn you can look ? Our children better never give me that look, althought I won't mind if they give it to you. You'd deserve it. Christine Feehan
1324e0a I just want some time, Mikhail, to think things through. It's frightening, the way I am about you. I think about you every minute; I want to touch you, just to know I can, to feel you beneath my fingers. It's as if you crawled into my head and my heart, even my body, and I can't get you out. love scared Christine Feehan