“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”
― A Stroke of Midnight
― A Stroke of Midnight
“The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important."
"It was probably important to her.”
― The Sea of Monsters
"It was probably important to her.”
― The Sea of Monsters
“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”
― The Battle of the Labyrinth
― The Battle of the Labyrinth
“In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.”
― Roma
― Roma
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