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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 |