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    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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    Rick Riordan
    “Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: deadlines, humor, procrastinate
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    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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    Rick Riordan
    “How did you die?"
    "We er....drowned in a bathtub."
    "All three of you?"
    "It was a big bathtub.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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    Rick Riordan
    “Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
    tags: death, greek, humor, mythology, percy-jackson, sorry
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    Rick Riordan
    “In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
    tags: books, humor, olympians
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    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
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    Rick Riordan
    “Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: inspirational
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    Rick Riordan
    “Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: fate, future, knowledge
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    Rick Riordan
    “Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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    Rick Riordan
    “You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
    tags: humor, mythological, paradise
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    Rick Riordan
    “Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked.

    "It only works on wild animals."

    "So it would only affect Percy," Annabeth reasoned.

    "Hey!" I protested.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: annabeth-chase, banter, grover-underwood, percy-jackson
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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
    “Now, come over here so I can pat you down."
    "But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure."
    He stood next to the armless statue. Terminus conducted a rigorous mental pat down.
    "You seem to be clean," Terminus decided. "Do you have anything to declare?"
    "Yes," Percy said. "I declare that this is stupid.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
    tags: customs, declare, mental-pat-down, no-arms, percy-jackson, terminus
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones
    tags: humor, obedience
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    Tamora Pierce
    “You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
    "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess
    tags: alanna, amusing, philosophy, tamora-pierce
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.
    Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back.”
    ― Tamora Pierce , Trickster's Choice
    tags: aly, cat, cats, curiosity, fesgao
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage
    tags: everyone, humor, scholar
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    Tamora Pierce
    “When in doubt, shoot the wizard.”
    ― Tamora Pierce
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?”
    ― Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess
    tags: humour, stereotypes
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    Tamora Pierce
    “If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Trickster's Choice
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    Tamora Pierce
    “When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Squire
    tags: knighthood, raoul
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    Tamora Pierce
    “A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Page
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    Tamora Pierce
    “I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.”
    ― Tamora Pierce
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    Tamora Pierce
    “The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire
    tags: bravery, daja, fear, friends, sandry
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.”
    ― Tamora Pierce
    tags: gentry, george-cooper, humour, labels
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    Tamora Pierce
    “You're more trouble than you're worth."
    "I'm a girl. That's my job.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Street Magic
    tags: briar, evvy, girl, girls, trouble
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Trickster's Choice
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