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    Rick Riordan
    “I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
    tags: leo-valdez, rick-riordan, the-mark-of-athena
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    Rick Riordan
    “Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, ‘festus’ means ‘happy’? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
    tags: jason, names
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    Rick Riordan
    “Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
    tags: humor, percy-jackson
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    Rick Riordan
    “Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: glory
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    Rick Riordan
    “Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
    tags: diet-coke, dolphin-warriors, mark-of-athena, percy-jackson
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    Rick Riordan
    “Life is only precious because it ends, kid.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
    tags: mortality
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    Rick Riordan
    “She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: bravery, fish, humor
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    Rick Riordan
    “Braccas meas vescimini!"
    I wasn't sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant 'Eat my pants!”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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    Rick Riordan
    “To my wonderful readers:
    Sorry about that last cliff-hanger.
    Well, no, not really. HAHAHAHA.
    But seriously, I love you guys.    ”
    ― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
    tags: cliff-hanger, rick-riordan, riordan, the-heroes-of-olympus, the-house-of-hades, the-mark-of-athena
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    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
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    Rick Riordan
    “Leo: Rainbows. Very macho.
    Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the pegasi.
    Leo: Rainbows, ponies...
    Butch: I'm gonna toss you off this chariot.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
    tags: annabeth-chase, butch, leo-valdez, machismo, masculinity
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    Rick Riordan
    “Can we just call them storm spirits?” Leo asked. “Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drinks.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
    tags: labels, leo, lost-hero
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    Rick Riordan
    “New lesson, class. Most monsters will vaporize when sliced with a celestial bronze sword. This change is perfectly normal, and will happen to you right now if you don't BACK OFF!" - Percy”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
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    Rick Riordan
    “Rachel: They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb.
    Annabeth: Was it hard?”
    ― Rick Riordan
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    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
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    Rick Riordan
    “Dance you guys!" Thalia ordered. "You look stupid just standing there."
    I looked nervously at Annabeth, then at the groups of girls who were roaming the gym.
    "Well?" Annabeth asked.
    "Um, who should I ask?"
    She punched me in the gut. "Me, Seaweed Brain."
    "Oh. Oh right.”
    ― Rick Riordan
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    Rick Riordan
    “Gaea?” Leo shook his head. “Isn’t that Mother Nature? She’s supposed to have, like, flowers in her hair and birds singing around her and dear and rabbits doing her laundry.”
    “Leo, that’s Snow White,” Piper said.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
    tags: fairy-tales, gaea, leo-valdez, piper-mclean
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    Rick Riordan
    “You drool when you sleep.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: annabeth-chase, drool
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    Rick Riordan
    “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.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: conscience, guilt, plagiarism
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    Rick Riordan
    “Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
    tags: inspirational, wits
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    Rick Riordan
    “It's him," I said. "Typhon."
    I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like 'No, that's our huge friend Leroy! He's going to help us!”
    ― Rick Riordan
    tags: chiron, percy-jackson
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    Rick Riordan
    “She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
    tags: funny, humor
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    Rick Riordan
    “It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
    tags: courage, honesty, self-disclosure, truth-telling
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    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
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    Rick Riordan
    “The sea does not like to be restrained. ”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: sea
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    Rick Riordan
    “Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!"

    He slung his M16 onto his back and pulled out a hand grenade. There were many screaming Romans. Then the hand grenade morphed into a ballpoint pen, and Mars began to write.

    Frank looked at Percy with wide eyes. He mouthed: Can your sword do grenade form?

    Percy mouthed back, No. Shut up.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
    tags: ares, frank-zhang, heroes-of-olympus, humor, mars, percy-jackson, son-of-neptune, transformation
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    Rick Riordan
    “I told Tantalus to go chase a doughnut. ”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters
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    Rick Riordan
    “Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: ares, family, fight, percy-jackson, relatives
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    Rick Riordan
    “Before I could figure out how to apologize for being such an idiot, she tackled me with a hug, then pulled away just as quickly. "I'm glad you're not a guinea pig."
    "Me, too." I hoped my face wasn't as red as it felt.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters
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    Rick Riordan
    “I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky!”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
    tags: annabeth-chase, conceit, percy-jackson, self-esteem
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