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“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”
― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“It isn't ever delicate to live.”
― Kay Ryan

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

“So...have you ever thought about dyeing your hair punk-rocker-chick black? As I'm sure you've heard, I have a thing for brunettes and always avoid blondes."

"I've heard. And no."

"Too bad. Because you're making me rethink my stance about doing my friends' exes." I snorted, not even trying to hide my...incredulity? Surely I wasn't amused.

"Your making me rethink my stance on cold-blooded homicide”
― Gena Showalter, Through the Zombie Glass

“The on and off thing is kind of annoying, isn't it? First with Cole, now with Gavin. "Maybe you need a tune up." I rolled my eyes. "I'll just pop into the supernatural ability repair shop sometime tomorrow." He grinned, his fingers tracing the line of my jaw.”
― Gena Showalter, Through the Zombie Glass

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
― Graham Greene

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
― Michael Palin

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

“What-what do you want?" Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence.
The voice cackled maliciously.
'To curse you, of course! To destroy you thousand times in the name of Mother Night!'
"Only a thousand times?" Percy murmured. "Oh, good...I thought we were in trouble.”
― Rick Riordan

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, the never get around to doing what they want to do.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness”
― Kathleen Winsor, Forever Amber

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
― Richard Price

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
― Guillermo Del Toro

“Oh, by the way…” Jason glanced at Percy. “I resigned my office, gave Frank a field promotion to praetor. Unless you want to contest that ruling.”

Percy grinned. “No argument here.”

“Praetor?” Hazel stared at Frank.

He shrugged uncomfortably. “Well… yeah. I know it seems weird.” She tried to throw her arms around him, then winced as she remembered her busted ribs. She settled for kissing him. “It seems perfect.”

Leo clapped Frank on the shoulder. “Way to go, Zhang. Now you can order Octavian to fall on his sword.”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."
Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?"
Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?"
"Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam french fries."
Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."
...
I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at me. "I do not understand."
"I want to use the dam water fountain," Grover said.
"And..." Thalia tried to catch her breath. "I want to buy a dam t-shirt.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse