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Rick Riordan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 5
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USA
Richard Russell Riordan
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Richard Russell Riordan Jr
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Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded. Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control traffic.” You both sound like my mother,” I said. Shut up!” they both said in union.
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Zia, I said, that's a goddess. She defeated Bast. What chance do you have? Zia held up her staff and the carved lion's head burst into flames - a small red fireball so bright, it lit the entire room. I am a scribe in the House of LIfe, Sadie Kane. I am trained to fight gods.
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I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if I were on the verge of death-plankton maybe. -Percy Jackson
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The world may need fixing, but it's worth preserving.
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Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins but it wasn't fair to birds, and I was getting tired of teleporting them back home. Somewhere in Antarctica, a whole flock of Magellanic penguins were undergoing psychotherapy.
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His left eyebrow crept higher and higher as I told him the strange bits like the glowing letters and serpent staff. Well, Sadie, Inspector Williams said. You've got quite an imagination. I'm not lying, Inspector. And I think your eyebrow is trying to escape. He tried to look at his own eyebrows, then scowled.
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I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.
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My dear children! Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack. Ow! Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye. Nellie! Amy said. Sorry, Nellie muttered. I thought he was one of the bad guys.
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Hello!” The girl in the blood-red dress beamed at Leo. “Are you Dionysus?” There was only one answer to that. “Yes!” Leo yelped. “Absolutely. I am Dionysus.
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We are servants of Ma’at—order and justice. We don’t kill our enemies for things they might do in the future.
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Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.
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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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I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.
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He just raised the dead with coke and cheeseburgers
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I’m sorry I can’t do more. But happy birthday, Sadie.” He leaned forward and kissed me on the lips.
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I couldn't believe I'd come this far, lost Tyson, suffered through so much, only to fail - stopped by a big stupid monster in a baby-blue tuxedo kilt. Nobody was going to swat down my friends like that! I mean... nobody, not Nobody. Ah, you know what I mean.
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I know, I'm an idiot! Leo moaned. A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot.
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I turned and faced the Olympians. We need a shroud, I announced, my voice cracking. A shroud for the son of Hermes.
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I should've blown more stuff up. -Coach Gleeson Hedge
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Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
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