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  • #1
    Rick Riordan
    “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: inspirational, life, meaning
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  • #2
    Rick Riordan
    “Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
    tags: love
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  • #3
    Rick Riordan
    “People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
    tags: machines, people
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  • #4
    Rick Riordan
    “It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: humanity, humans, mankind, reality
    3818 likes

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  • #5
    Rick Riordan
    “Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: inspirational
    3351 likes

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  • #6
    Rick Riordan
    “Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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  • #7
    Rick Riordan
    “Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: fate, future, knowledge
    3217 likes

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  • #8
    Rick Riordan
    “We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
    tags: annabeth-chase, emotion, heartbreak, love, percy-jackson
    3314 likes

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  • #9
    Rick Riordan
    “It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
    tags: enjoy, humor, joke, prank
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  • #10
    Rick Riordan
    “The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
    tags: infatuation, love, obsession
    3155 likes

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  • #11
    Rick Riordan
    “Humans see what they want to see.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: humanity, humans, mankind, perception, self-delusion, willful-ignorance
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  • #12
    Rick Riordan
    “The real world is where the monsters are.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: monsters, reality, world
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  • #13
    Rick Riordan
    “You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”
    ― Rick Riordan
    tags: art, artist, painting, poem, poet, poetry
    2145 likes

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  • #14
    Rick Riordan
    “Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: glory
    1877 likes

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  • #15
    Rick Riordan
    “Life is only precious because it ends, kid.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
    tags: mortality
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  • #16
    Rick Riordan
    “My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.”
    ― Rick Riordan
    tags: family
    1529 likes

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  • #17
    Rick Riordan
    “But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
    tags: inspirational, kind, kindness, powerful, sword
    1275 likes

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  • #18
    Rick Riordan
    “Tell the sun and stars hello for me.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
    1268 likes

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  • #19
    Rick Riordan
    “It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
    tags: courage, honesty, self-disclosure, truth-telling
    1059 likes

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  • #20
    Rick Riordan
    “You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
    tags: jason-grace, leo-valdez, percy-jackson, piper-mclean, the-lost-hero
    1022 likes

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  • #21
    Rick Riordan
    “Suspecting and knowing are not the same.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: knowing, suspecting
    882 likes

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  • #22
    Rick Riordan
    “Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
    tags: attacked, death, delaying, humor, leo, the-mark-of-athena
    914 likes

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  • #23
    Rick Riordan
    “No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
    745 likes

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  • #24
    Rick Riordan
    “There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse
    tags: athena, percy-jackson
    691 likes

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  • #25
    Rick Riordan
    “Names have power.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: conjuring, names, power
    585 likes

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  • #26
    Rick Riordan
    “Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
    tags: greek-mythology, heroes-of-olympus, piper-mclean, rick-riordan, the-mark-of-athena
    627 likes

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  • #27
    Rick Riordan
    “Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.”
    ― Rick Riordan
    tags: incrementalism, inspirational, world
    447 likes



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