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Rick Riordan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 5
Author
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Military City
USA
Richard Russell Riordan
Jr.
Richard Russell Riordan Jr
Bitter
Taste
Sweet

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Cool Leo said. I always wanted a sister who could beat me up.
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Love was the most savage monster of all.
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She was beautiful in combat. I know that’s a crazy thing to say, especially after we’d just climbed a sewage waterfall, but her gray eyes sparkled when she was fighting for her life. Her face shone like a goddess’s, and believe me, I’ve seen goddesses. The way her Camp Half-Blood beads rested against her throat—Okay, sorry. Got a little distracted.
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A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.
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That really was NOT fun, though. Well, the hitting-her-with-a-stick part, that was fun. But crashing into a concrete bear? NOT fun.
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I remembered the last time Annabeth and I had parted ways, when she'd given me a kiss for luck in Mount St. Helens. This time, all I got was the hat.
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Could I just use the loo?” I asked the nice officer. “No.” She closed the door in my face, As if I might rig an explosion in the toilet. Honestly.
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All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.
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You know what would help this boy? Demeter mused. Farming. Persephone rolled her eyes. Mother- Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building.
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The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.
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Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
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Fish Ponies! I put them on the ceiling! -Tyson
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Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.
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Um, dad? I called How's it going? Percy! Annabeth whispered. We're in a hurry!
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All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.
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What-what do you want? Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence. The voice cackled maliciously. 'To curse you, of course! To destroy you thousand times in the name of Mother Night!' Only a thousand times? Percy murmured. Oh, good...I thought we were in trouble.
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Five shall go west to the goddess in chains, One shall be lost in the land without rain, The bane of Olympus shows the trail, Campers and Hunters combined prevail, The Titan's curse must one withstand, And one shall perish by a parent's hand
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What are you talking about? Narcissus demanded. I am amazing. Everyone knows this. Amazing at pure suck, Leo said. If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that.
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