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Sometimes it is better to have someone you mistrust close to you, so that you can keep an eye on him - Chiron

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Rick Riordan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 5
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Military City
USA
Richard Russell Riordan
Jr.
Richard Russell Riordan Jr
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Sometimes
Chiron
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I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box.
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his hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl's on homecoming night. Percy Jackson
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Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees.
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You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.
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Percy!” he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you’ve never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and rubber cleaning gloves, I’m telling you, it’ll wake you up quick.
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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.
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Liz cleared her throat. Isn't there a more polite term we're supposed to use nowadays? Like....little person, or vertically challenged,or- I'm not going to call myself the god of vertically challenged people, Bes grumbled. I'm a dwarf!
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You know how teachers tell you the magic word is 'please'? That's not true. The magic word is 'puke'. It will get you out of class faster than anything else.
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