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Eat bitter, taste sweet

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

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But how do we even get to the land of the dead?” I asked. “I mean…without dying.
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But she wondered why beautiful things had to be wrapped up with evil history. Or was it the other way around? Maybe the evil history made it necessary to build beautiful things, to mask the darker aspects.
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And if I was humming Happy Birthday and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it?
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Alabaster, you told me earlier that heroes don't die. You may be right, but I can tell you one thing. Claymore looked the boy in the eyes. I'm not a hero.
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The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.
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I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.
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It’s hard to look in charge when you’re hunched over like Quasimodo.
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Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.
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Run!” Piper said. “We are running!” Jason picked up the speed. “Run better!” Leo shouted.
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If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it?
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Luke gazed at Annabeth. You knew. I almost killed you, but you knew . . . Shhh. Her voice trembled. You were a hero at the end, Luke.
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See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson
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He was dressed just like on TV, with lots of silver chains and bracelets, ripped jeans, and a black muscle shirt (Which was kind of stupid, since he didn't have any muscles).
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The taller they are, the longer they fall.
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Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.
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All we can do, child, is follow our destiny.
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The truth hit him. Jason wasn't quite Roman anymore. His time at Camp Half-Blood had changed him. Reyna had recognized that. Apparently, so did the undead legionnaires. If Jason no longer gave off the right sort of vibe, or aura of a Roman leader.
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