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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
Minus
Spears
Zero
Six
Good
Subtraction
Ella

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You might not think a hippo could inspire terror. Screaming “Hippo!” doesn’t have the same impact as screaming “Shark!” But I’m telling you—as the Egyptian Queen careened to one side, its paddle wheel lifting completely out of the water, and I saw that monster emerge from the deep, I nearly discovered the hieroglyphs for accident in my pants.
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Yeah, well. I don’t try to be awesome. It just comes natural.
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Aphrodite, she said. Venus? Hazel asked in amazement. Mom, Piper said, with no enthusiasm.
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Oh, don't mind me! Just the queen of the heavens, dying over here!
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It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.
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I have strong feelings for you, I just haven't decided if their positive or negitive yet.A
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Either the kid was naturally hyper or he was hopped up on enough caffeine to give a heart attack to a water buffalo.
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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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He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reading souls
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Percy, my father said, what exactly do you mean? Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their parents, I said. They felt angry, resentful, and unloved, and they had a good reason.
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The truth is harsh. Anubis said. Spirits come to the Hall of Judgement all the time, and they cannot let go of their lies. They deny their faults, their true feelings, their mistakes.......right up until Ammit devours their souls for eternity. It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.
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Just remember if we get caught, you're deaf and I don't speak English.
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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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Yay!' he said. 'Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!
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Me? I slept like the dead, which I hoped wasn’t a sign of things to come.
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Maybe it's okay to still be a kid every once in a while.
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Ah... Much better he said. Backbiter, Luke called it. An appropriate name. Now that it is reforged comeplately, it shall indeed bite back
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The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years.” “Yeah,” I said. “And now they’re gone.
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I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.
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