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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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Do yourself a favor,' I said. Forget it. Forget you ever saw me. Forget that you tried to kill me too? Yeah. That, too. But who are you? Percy- I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. Gotta go! What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go? I bolted for the exit.
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I could always see myself being a teacher. I remember sitting in class as a kid, listening to the teacher and thinking, you know, I'm pretty sure I could explain that a little bit better.
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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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He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. I'm coming back for you, Calypso, he said to the night wind. I swear it on the River Styx.
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I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy.
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If you've seen a crab's mouth, all foamy and gross with whiskers and snapping bits, you can imagine this one didn't look any better blown up to billboard size.
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Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!
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Thanks for everything.” “As you wish,” the captain said. If axes could frown, I’m sure he would have. “Stay sharp,” Carter told him.
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His lion and hippo legs twitched. I wondered if netherworld monsters dreamed of chasing rabbits.
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Nico leaned over and plucked a grape. Probably that was the guy’s entire diet for the day.
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Whasthat! Um ... those are the toilets.
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Right.” Sadie looked dazed. “You’ve got a monkey butler. Why not?
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Leo grabbed the neasrest thing he could find- a Porta-Potty seat- and threw it at the face. Leve me alone!
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The baboon is driving,” I noted. “Should I be worried?
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Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness
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I had a crush on Percy, Nico spat. That's the truth. That's the big secret.
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Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head. Wow...when he started having thoughts like that, he knew he'd been spending too much time with Annabeth.
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If i'm going to survive, it won't be because i have a lion-skin cloak. I'm not Hercules.
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My brother broke into a toothy grin. Yay! Your brain works!
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Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?
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