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de01782 Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea. Rick Riordan
40a660d ZEUS SUX and TYPHOEUS WUZ HERE. Rick Riordan
9314cd0 Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent. Rick Riordan
8884111 I tried to look confused, which is one of my most convincing expressions. 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. greek heroes-of-olympus jason-grace rick-riordan the-house-of-hades Rick Riordan
6787b08 I kind of liked that, actually. You couldn't multitask while talking to him. The dialogue required one hundred percent focus. If all conversations were like that, I imagined people wouldn't say so much stupid garbage. Rick Riordan
509038f He had a crush on a blueberry bush once. juniper Rick Riordan
5927864 Frank: "I wish I was ADHD or dyslexic. All I got is lactose intolerance." Rick Riordan
426d9ff A note from Annabeth." Piper shook her head in amazement. "I don't see how that's possible, but if it is--" "She's alive," Leo said. "Thank the gods and pass the hot sauce." Frank frowned. "What does that mean?" Leo wiped the chip crumbs off his face. "It means pass the hot sauce, Zhang. I'm still hungry." Rick Riordan
4331ebc At the ed of the hall stood a walnut door with a bronze plaque: ASCLEPIUS MD, DMD, DME, DC, DVS, FAAN, OMG, EMT, TTYL, FRCP, ME, IOU, OD, OT, PHARMD, BAMF, RN, PHD, INC., SMH There may have been more acronyms in the list, but by that point Leo's brain had exploded. greek-gods leo-valdez rick-riordan Rick Riordan
b997961 Imitation is flattery Rick Riordan
2c406f3 Chocolate must be savored, not rushed.) Rick Riordan
6c4dec7 Meg looked at me with something resembling respect. "What did you do to them?" "Nothing," I said. "Half the trick to being a god is knowing how to bluff." humor meg-mccaffrey Rick Riordan
844d3e1 Look, lady, we're not going to go all HUNGER GAMES on each other. Isn't going to happen. hungergames leovaldez nike valdez Rick Riordan
045c6be Let's have a good clean three-legged death race. Rick Riordan
e3ba142 During their separation, something had happened to Annabeth's feelings. They'd grown painfully intense-like she'd been forced to withdraw from a life-saving medication. Now she wasn't sure which was more excruciating-living with that horrible absence, or being with him again. Rick Riordan
7b3af6e The wand ricocheted through the swarm, thumping six, seven, eight of the little monsters before returning to Carter's hand. "Not bad," I said. "Keep it up!" Rick Riordan
d7892f9 Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time? jason love percy piper Rick Riordan
74377d8 The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head. Rick Riordan
21f3a64 Writing is like pulling teeth. From my dick. David Rakoff
5c2804a She is trying to convince me that she never does this and is not that type of girl. It was difficult for me to understand. Her enunciation wasn't very good with my dick in her mouth. Tucker Max
1d5fc7e Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black. Erik Larson
431d935 The heart does not go backward. Only the mind. remembrance Elizabeth Kostova
be9b8d5 I had that hole in me, that empty space. I could have lived my life with it, content enough. I wasn't an unhappy man."..................... The tears came now. He watched them drip down her cheeks, wondered if she were even aware they leaked out of her. "She was part of my life. You are my life. If I have a regret, it's that even for an instant you could think otherwise. Or that I allowed you to." -Roarke" -- fights marriage regret sadness J.D. Robb
396d4b3 A pity it was so early in the day and I couldn't treat myself to the roller coaster. we'll have to come back, you and I, and make up for it." "Sure, when I've lost my mind and want to rush screaming through the air in a little car." J.D. Robb
431313d ABSTRACT THOUGHTS in a blue room; Nominative, genitive, etative, accusative one, accusative two, ablative, partitive, illative, instructive, abessive, adessive, inessive, essive, allative, translative, comitative. Sixteen cases of the Finnish noun. Odd, some languages get by with only singular and plural. The American Indian languages even failed to distinguish number. Except Sioux, in which there was a plural only for animate objects. The .. Samuel R. Delany
5d85de4 Awkward interests me, he said. At least when you are feeling awkward you are always thinking. When you are feeling fabulous, for example, rare occurrence that it may be, you stop thinking altogether. Which gets you into all kinds of trouble. Hence, you are for the better off feeling awkward. Just the sound of it on your tongue. Like chewing on screws. awkwardness Elizabeth Brundage
fe9d895 I had to google "mofo" and must confess to being slightly alarmed by the result." Gail Honeyman
8ae6b69 It turned out that if you saw the same person with some degree of regularity, then the conversation was immediately pleasant and comfortable -- you could pick up where you left off, as it were, rather than having to start afresh each time. Gail Honeyman
6fe4e45 1. Write every day 2. Write what interests you. 3. Write for the child inside of you. (Or the adult, if you are writing adult books.) 4. Write with honest emotion 5. Be careful of being facile 6. Be wary of preaching 7. Be prepared for serendipity Jane Yolen
0b3d9c8 There was a reminder that the library was always seeking books, and that they paid in wine. Emily St. John Mandel
406d8ca Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. Sophie Kinsella
df0f8be I now know exactly why they started the tradition of being apart the night before your wedding. It's nothing about romance, or sex, or being chaste, or whatever. It's so you don't have a row and stomp up the aisle seething at your bridegroom, planning all the home truths you're going to tell him as soon as you get this wedding bit out of the way. Sophie Kinsella
c83918a Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush. I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that. Sophie Kinsella
17667f3 I had fun. That's what I believe in. Fun, flings, the sizzle. It starts as a shiver, when you see a man for the first time. And then he meets your eye and the shiver runs down your back and becomes a sizzle in your stomach and you think 'I want to dance with that man.' You dance, you have a cocktail or two, you flirt. Sophie Kinsella
946045f So", says Jack at at last..."you broke up with Connor". Wow. So we're straight to the point. "So", I reply defiantly. "You decided to stay". "Yes, well...", "I thought I might take a closer look at some of the European subsidiaries." He looks up. "How about you?" "Same reason." I nod. "European subsidiaries"." humor Sophie Kinsella
754ce19 Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others. Margaret Atwood
21eb4e7 So Crake never remembered his dreams. It's Snowman that remembers them instead. Worse than remembers: he's immersed in them, he'd wading through them, he's stuck in them. Every moment he's lived in the past few months was dreamed first by Crake. No wonder Crake screamed so much. Margaret Atwood
275021d But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men. Margaret Atwood
bacb539 There's only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you. Margaret Atwood
b3d45ba Red Fox The red fox crosses the ice intent on none of my business. It's winter and slim pickings. I stand in the bushy cemetery, pretending to watch birds, but really watching the fox who could care less. She pauses on the sheer glare of the pond. She knows I'm there, sniffs me in the wind at her shoulder. If I had a gun or dog or a raw heart, she'd smell it. She didn't get this smart for nothing. She's a lean vixen: I can see the ribs, the.. burned fox house margaret morning red Margaret Atwood
df1dc43 To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next th.. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
c97d0cd for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long. Dodie Smith
446bba3 My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people - the me imprisoned in yesterday and the me out here on the mound; and now there is a third me trying to get in - the me in what is going to happen next. Dodie Smith