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It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

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Rick Riordan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 5
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Richard Russell Riordan
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Richard Russell Riordan Jr
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Okay, I said. Just a normal afternoon and two normal people. She nodded. And so...hypothetically, if these to people likes each other, what would it take to get the stupid guy to kiss the girl, huh? Oh... I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows-slow, dumb, and bright red. Um.
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For once, I didn't look back.
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No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. - Poseidon
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I concentrated hard and snapped my fingers. You don't see the sword, I told the girl. It's just a ballpoint pen. She blinked. Um . . . no. It's a sword, weirdo.
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He [Percy] pleaded with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help. Piper wondered how Annabeth ever won an argument with this guy.
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Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.
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'You're Dionysus,' I said. 'The god of wine.' Mr. D rolled his eyes. 'What do they say these days, Grover? Do the children say Well duh!?' 'Y-yes, Mr. D.' 'Then, Well, duh! Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Aphrodite, perhaps?' 'You're a god.' 'Yes, child.' 'A god. You.'
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Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America.
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The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.
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Genius does not excuse evil.
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Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.
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What in the world are you thinking?” She sounded pretty flustered. “I try not to think,” Leo admitted. “It interferes with being nuts. Just concentrate on moving that Celestial bronze. Echo, you ready?
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George unhinged his jaw and coughed up a little plastic bottle filled with chewable vitamins. You're kidding, I said. Are those Minotaur-shaped? Hermes picked up the bottle and rattled it. The lemon ones, yes. The grape ones are Furies, I think. Or are they hydras? At any rate, these are potent.
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I'm so glad you're here, Aphrodite said. War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do. Uh... and that is? Annabeth ventured. Why, have tea and chat, obviously
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You're a stalker with hooves. I am not! I followed her to the Big House and hid in a bush and watched the whole thing.
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We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world?
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It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.
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Are you suggesting that the gods have trouble acting together, young lady? Dionysus asked. Yes, Lord Dionysus. Mr. D nodded. Just checking. You're right, of course. Carry on.
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Leo could run pretty fast when someone was trying to kill him. Sadly, he’d had a lot of practice.
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I looked back, but Bast and Sadie seemed fine. They were still staring at the water as if it were some amazing Internet video.
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