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Megan, The One Who Loves Infernal Devices
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Jan 24, 2014 01:33PM
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Unfortunately, my husband put a stop to that. :(
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You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you. ~ Isadora DuncanI have too many quotes that I love... literally a 20 page document of them, but this one is the one I'm feeling the most today I think.
“He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reading souls” ― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
“Julius told me how much you’d grown, but I couldn’t believe it. Carter, I bet you’re shaving—”
“Mom.”
“—and dating girls—”
“Mom!” Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?”
― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
“Carter looked awful—I mean even worse than usual. Honestly, the boy had never been in a proper school, and he dressed like a junior professor, with his khaki trousers and a button-down brown shirt and loafers. He’s not bad looking, I suppose. He’s reasonably tall and fit and his hair isn’t hopeless. He’s got Dad’s eyes, and my mates Liz and Emma have even told me from his picture that he’s hot, which I must take with a grain of salt because (a) he’s my brother, and (b) my mates are a bit crazed. When it came to clothes, Carter wouldn’t have known hot if it bit him on the bum.”
― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
“Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
"He's the sun god," I said.
"That's not what I meant.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
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― Rick Riordan, The Son o..."
Rick Riordan does have some awesome quotes. ^_^
Ok there's a lot..."S ist mal bei mir so Sitte, Chacun à son goût"
(It's just my custom, each to his own taste)
-Prince Orlofsky, Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II
"What I have dreamed in an hour is worth more than what you have done in four"
-Lorenzo de' Medici
"Be as thou wast wont to be / see as thou wast wont to see"
-Oberon, Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream
"Ma quel che fatto è fatto / e non si può cangiar"
(But what is done is done / and you cannot change that"
-Lorenzo da Ponte (Una Cosa Rara)
Also requoted by Emperor Joseph II, as per da Ponte
"I pitty you."
"Pitty is a form of love!"
-William Shakespeare, Twelfe Night
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”Calvin Coolidge
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts will be written the history of a generation."
Robert Kennedy
"When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies, to be met not with cooperation but with conquest; to be subjugated and mastered. We learn, at the last, to look at our brothers as aliens, men with whom we share a city, but not a community; men bound to us in common dwelling, but not in common effort. We learn to share only a common fear, only a common desire to retreat from each other, only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force.
Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land. Of course we cannot vanquish it with a program, nor with a resolution. But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can. Surely, this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something. Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen once again."
Robert Kennedy
Okay, I could o on forever with TFIOS quotes, but here are a few of my favourites. '"I'm on a roller-coaster that only goes up, my friend."' ~John Green, The Fault in our Stars
'My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.' ~John Green, TFIOS
'"I'm a grenade, Augustus, and one day I'm gonna blow and I want to minimise the casualties, okay?"' John Green, TFIOS
“Don't give yourself a limit and you may discover you don't have one.” ― Veronica Blade, Something Witchy This Way Comes
Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green
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