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1efce22 What are you doing out here, Kat?" Several moments passed before I could speak "I just blew up a bunch of windows." Jennifer L. Armentrout
1c3358c It's stupid what keeps people apart. Rick Riordan
d136428 How did you decide when someone was irretrievably lost--when they were so evil or toxic or just plain set in their ways that you had to face the fact they were never going to change? How long could you keep trying to save them, and when did you give up and grieve for them as though they were dead? Rick Riordan
565e275 Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook --BOOM, BOOM, BOOM--which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. O'Leary was wagging her tail. I couldn't help but smile. paul percy-jackson Rick Riordan
91acf92 Just keep moving! we're almost there." "almost where?" Juno chuckled. "all roads lead there child. you should know that" "detention?" Percy asked. "Rome, child, the old woman said. "Rome" Rick Riordan
f4b6d0e You're already married!" Hera protested. "To me!" "Curses!" said Zeus. "Er, I mean, of course, dear." Rick Riordan
39eb2f7 But it's your Oracle," I protested. "Can't you tell us what the prophecy means?" Apollo sighed. "You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear through the search." percy prophecy Rick Riordan
7b2bbf2 Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: "The groin. The Earthborn's groin is sensitive." SMASH! "Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin." humor tyson Rick Riordan
49ca691 Nico clenched his sword. Sharing his secret crush hadn't been the worst of it. Eventually he might have done that, in his own time, in his own way. But being forced to talk about Percy, being bullied and harassed and strong-armed simply for Cupid's amusement ... Tendrils of darkness were now spreading out from his feet, killing all the weeds between the cobblestones. Nico tried to rein in his anger. percy-jackson Rick Riordan
80b4af1 Either the kid was naturally hyper or he was hopped up on enough caffeine to give a heart attack to a water buffalo. Rick Riordan
2cd8819 Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn't a compliment. "I will rend your limbs from their sockets!" he shouted. "I will--" "Die?" Carter suggested." Rick Riordan
9416116 Desjardins was literally fuming. His tattered robes still smoked from battle. (Carter says I shouldn't mention that his pink boxer shorts were showing, but they were!) Rick Riordan
ccfe304 Remember what it's like to be human, human jason-grace promise Rick Riordan
95c3fe1 It's not how long you live that matters. It's what you live for. Rick Riordan
e102ee8 Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can scarely understand what has happened. Elizabeth Kostova
02362ee The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need. marriage Elizabeth Kostova
9526320 Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's Marian keyes
626ac84 War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children. good peace war Jimmy Carter
1a45e96 Every instinct in me wants to text someone OMG, I've lost my phone! but how can I do that without a bloody phone? Sophie Kinsella
5b4d128 I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin. Margaret Atwood
f7d73c8 Now that I am dead, I know everything. Margaret Atwood
179a73b Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone; and there are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed. Margaret Atwood
38ba754 Always Wear Flats and Have Your Friends Sleep Over: A Step-by-Step How-To Guide for Avoiding Getting Murdered Mindy Kaling
70d5924 I'm quite capable of walking," she pointed out. It is faster this way. Your legs are short." They are not!" dark-guardian jaxon-montgomery lucian Christine Feehan
083ff62 Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners. -You will not find it. -Why am I not surprised? library manners order suggest Christine Feehan
14d91dc There is still one of which you never speak.' Marco Polo bowed his head. 'Venice,' the Khan said. Marco smiled. 'What else do you believe I have been talking to you about?' The emperor did not turn a hair. 'And yet I have never heard you mention that name.' And Polo said: 'Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice. venice Italo Calvino
c8a3f91 From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow a.. time Jonathan Safran Foer
f5066aa Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God. god lies Denis Johnson
c85a24d the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man Franz Kafka
8355f6a I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason. Franz Kafka
ae5846b I can't think of anything to write about, I'm just walking around here between the lines, under the light of your eyes, in the breadth of your mouth as in a beautiful happy day, which remains beautiful and happy, even when the head is sick and tired. Franz Kafka
6e3adb0 Go on caring for me. Franz Kafka
88b90ab Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are clasped behind his head. "I know how you feel," he finally says. "But this is something you have to work out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have t.. Haruki Murakami
d5816e6 I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I'm much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That's just the kind of person I am. I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match. Haruki Murakami
2717a33 I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more. darkness-and-light love nostalgia parallel Haruki Murakami
1606c96 You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it. children teaching Steve Martin
5c83f57 Maybe I was naive to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything. silence Jodi Picoult
3b05a8c This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them. Jodi Picoult
9a4afb4 The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. Jodi Picoult
b2048fa There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud. Jodi Picoult
c4048d1 I don't belong to a religion. Religion's the reason the world's falling apart..." That's what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It's a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion's not about being holy," Shay said. "Just holier-than-thou." Jodi Picoult
fab2d26 If the past few months have taught me anything, it's that friendship is a smoke screen. The people you think are solid turn out to be mirrors and light; and then you look down and realize there are others you took for granted, those who are your foundation. Jodi Picoult
174ec10 I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life Jodi Picoult
926a6f0 There was another reason. The main one." "Reason?" I said stupidly. "Why I married you." "Which was?" I don't know what I expected him to say, perhaps some further revelation of his family's contorted affairs. What he did say was more of a shock, in its way. "Because I wanted you." He turned from the window to face me. "More than I ever wanted anything in my life," he added softly." Diana Gabaldon