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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3cb396d | They'd welcomed him aboard their ship. Nico had never allowed himself the luxury of friends, but the crew of the Argo II was as close as he'd ever come. The idea of any of them dying made him feel empty - like he was back in the giants' bronze jar, alone in the dark, subsisting only on sour pomegranate seeds. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 2155d8d | Bring it on, Pinecone Face! | Rick Riordan | ||
| 05d30cb | You can't call a ninja lord dweeb. | dweeb ninja-lord the-maze-of-bones rick maze rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 19e1baa | Maybe the lesson is: Know when to brag and when to keep your mouth shut. Or: Sometimes life isn't fair, even if you are as gifted as Athena. Or maybe: Don't give away free tapestries. | Rick Riordan | ||
| b453fc7 | No one is like me," Sadie agreed. "My amazingness is unique." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 1705474 | NOW, MY BRETHREN!" Poseidon's voice was so loud I wasn't sure if I was hearing it from the smoke image or from all the way across town. "STRIKE FOR OLYMPUS!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| fa698a8 | His lion and hippo legs twitched. I wondered if netherworld monsters dreamed of chasing rabbits. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 3d15a9b | Good luck, boss. Don't let'em turn you into horse meat! (Blackjack) | Rick Riordan | ||
| 42bfdea | I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 63e0f8f | My father, Zeus, did not love me. The demigods at Camp Half-Blood did not love me. Python and the Beast and his comrades at Triumvirate Holdings did not love me. It was almost enough to make me question my self-worth. No, no. That was crazy talk. | Rick Riordan | ||
| e5e26b4 | Lord Th- I mean, Thor,' said Sam, 'Won't you come with us? This is an important battle - the fire lord Surt, Fenris Wolf. Surely that's worthy of your attention.' Thor's right eye twitched. 'That's a fine offer. Really. I'd love to, but I have another pressing appointment -' 'Game of Thrones,' Marvin explained. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 737dc83 | I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 81ca869 | One of these days, I would love to exit a world without being pursued by an angry mob. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 2d3fdf6 | The farm god rolled his eyes. He pointed at the corn plant, and BAM! Nico di Angelo appeared in an exposion of corn silk. Nico looked around in panic. "I-I had the weirdest nightmare about popcorn." | Rick Riordan | ||
| c17df7e | Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks. | Rick Riordan | ||
| edb6885 | Hermes's shoulders sagged. "They'll try, Percy. Oh, we'll all try to keep our promise. And maybe for a while things will get better. But we gods have never been good at keeping oaths. You were born because of a broken promise, eh? Eventually we'll become forgetful. We always do." "You can change." Hermes laughed. "After three thousand years, you think the gods can change their nature?" "Yeah," I said. "I do." | inspirational keeping-promises percy-jackson hermes | Rick Riordan | |
| 411e6c2 | We can't make a portal--" "We've got a flying boat," Carter offered." | Rick Riordan | ||
| c2fe662 | Back up shall we? When my brother, the crazy chicken warrior, turned into a falcon and went up the pyramid's chimney with his new friend, the fruit bat, he left me playing nurse to two very wounded people--which I didn't appreciate, and which I wasn't particularly good at. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 61fe711 | It's hard to look in charge when you're hunched over like Quasimodo. | Rick Riordan | ||
| acc8a10 | Percy hefted a bronze grenade. 'I hope you labelled these right.' He yelled, 'Die, Romans!' and lobbed the grenade over the wall. | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| aa10657 | Thank Artemis, it is you! That little scar on your lip--you tried to eat a stapler when you were two!" ... Hedge nodded like he approved of Jason's taste. "Staplers--excellent source of iron." | staplers thalia | Rick Riordan | |
| bbcbde7 | Annabeth finished her note and folded the napkin. On the outside, she wrote: Connor, Give this to Rachel. Not a prank. Don't be a moron. Love, Annabeth | Rick Riordan | ||
| 5d1ea9b | Hey. Hands off.", "Please. Please, please, soooo pretty. Lemme just have one little touch." "Peabody, isn't it embarrassing enough you're wearing pink cowboy boots, again, without standing here drooling on my coat?" | J.D. Robb | ||
| 3ade58b | You need a medic, Lieutenant." "In a minute. Let me ask you something." "Ask away." Having nothing else, he tore part of his ripped sleeve to dab at the blood on her shoulder. "Do I come charging into one of your board rooms when you're having trouble with a business deal?" His eyes flicked to hers. Some of the fierceness died out of them into what was almost a smile. "No, Eve, you don't. I don't know what got into me." "It's okay. This onc.. | roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| a36b3d5 | You're earlier than expected, and appear to have gotten through the day without destroying any article of clothing. I must note this event down on my calendar." "Bitch when I'm late, bitch when I'm early. You could go pro on the bitching circuit." | summerset | J.D. Robb | |
| ed0c638 | God is dead and I am his replacement. | god | J.D. Robb | |
| 7e87e6d | A banner hung over the break-room door, facing out so any who came in would see the sentiment: NO MATTER YOUR RACE, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR POLITICAL AFFILIATION, WE PROTECT AND SERVE, BECAUSE YOU COULD GET DEAD. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 38a3489 | I changed your life." She looked down at the peach they shared. "You changed min. I'm glad of it." And back into his eyes. "Every day. I'm glad of it. I'd like a pond, and maybe something to sit on so we could watch the creepy, interesting fish." "That would suit me very well." She linked her arms around his neck, laid her cheek on his. Love finds a way, she thought." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 4b51b9e | I'm not a creature of vengeance any more. I'm not just the girl whose gift is chaos. I'm the girl who endured. | Elizabeth May | ||
| 0b6670d | I do exist, don't I? It often feels as if I'm not here, that I'm a figment of my own imagination. There are days when I feel so lightly connected to the earth that the threads that tether me to the planet are gossamer thin, spun sugar. A strong gust of wind could dislodge me completely, and I'd lift off and blow away, like one of those seeds in a dandelion clock. | Gail Honeyman | ||
| 21c7d26 | She looked at him with so much love that I had to turn away. At least I know what love looks like, I told myself. That's something. No one had ever looked at me like that, but I'd be able to recognize it if they ever did. | love | Gail Honeyman | |
| 52520ad | Grief is the price we pay for love, so they say. The price is far too high. The | Gail Honeyman | ||
| 51dea67 | We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don't spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 600bd2a | You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think? | darkness soul | James Joyce | |
| b46b268 | Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low. | humor hoyce wake | James Joyce | |
| 69cc318 | Me too." I agree fervently. "Every film should definitely have a message." Which is true. I mean... take the Lord of the Rings movies- they've got loads of messages. Like "Don't lose your ring." -- | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| b50e2a3 | We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 738d5de | Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 894a03a | We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us ho.. | snooping the-blind-assassin margaret-atwood knowledge | Margaret Atwood | |
| 7398530 | I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals. | parable fable animals humans | Margaret Atwood | |
| 30caeee | Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 8dc6b85 | The Chorus Line: A Rope-Jumping Rhyme we are the maids the ones you killed the ones you failed we danced in air our bare feet twitched it was not fair with every goddess, queen, and bitch from there to here you scratched your itch we did much less than what you did you judged us bad you had the spear you had the word at your command we scrubbed the blood of our dead paramours from floors, from chairs from stairs, from doors, we knelt in wat.. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 5a26016 | we lived in the gaps between the stories | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 1cb372b | truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future. | present time history warning future past truth depository lesseon rival example witness | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |