Melanie
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“If you believe you can read you can”
― The Unwanteds
― The Unwanteds
“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
― The Battle of the Labyrinth
― The Battle of the Labyrinth
“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
“There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression.”
― The Titan’s Curse
― The Titan’s Curse
“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
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