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"Go Back. You've Only Scratched The Surface." Pg. 130

"By being a champion among the champions and always besting my opponents. That is what the god of war loves." -Katie's Mom pg. 134

"Maybe the ring could turn me invincible, but those emotions it had dredged from the darkest parts of my soul... This was definitely the kind of ring you'd throw into a volcano." Pg. 139

"I remembered Benny telling me that safe wasn't the first word he conjured when he thought of Camp Half-Blood, but he was right. This felt different-- too dangerous even for demigods in training." Pg. 120

"I only half believed it. My record on trusting people to do the right thing wasn't great. But one way or another, I would go to the Wild Zone tomorrow.
Even if I had to go by myself." Pg. 128

"Please let my rescue plan work." -Katie praying thought to Ares pg. 108

"the searched apparently came up empty. Clarisse has most everyone believing that Grant just decided to leave Camp Half-Blood, but I don't think he ever left the forest." -Katie pg. 115

"Because... last night? I think I saw him
disappear." -Zuri pg. 116

"All the world's weapons seemed to be stocked in the Camp Half-Blood armory, which was impressive, since it wasn't much bigger than a garden shed." Pg. 96

"Your family would want you to survive. The best way to do that is to get to camp." Pg. 103

“I know it’s wrong to talk bad about your parents, but wow, the gods are not always the brightest stars in the sky.” Pg. 79

“It’s just… I only got here yesterday. And it was kind of rough journey.” -Katie
“I’m so sorry, Katie. A lot of us here can relate.” -Beckendorf pg. 88

“I’m just saying, if someone did have the guts to go into the Zone, there are rumors about more than monsters in there.” -Connor pg. 94

"What do you want me to do about it? Go out into the forest and track him down myself?" -Clarisse pg. 67

"The quicker we finish, the quicker you leave." -Argus pg. 72

"Hmm. Maybe Pantheon Politics?" -Argus
"Politics?" -Katie
"It helps you understand why the gods do what they do. Gets you into their heads." -Argus pg. 77

"Instead of... sacrificing me at breakfast?" -Katie pg. 54

"I realized there were actual eyes-- dozens of them covering every visible part of the giant's body. Did he have eyes even where you couldn't see?" 62

"The only reason we increased off-season admissions is because we're losing demigods faster than we can recruit them. Why do you think all five of you newbies got picked up at the same time?" -Clarisse pg. 65

"No mistakes," I whispered to myself. "Only success."
My mom always said that, and from now on, I was going to live by it. Pg. 52

"Not funny. There is nothing funny happening in this forest. Why did you stick your hand in that death hole?" -Katie pg. 22

"This isn't exactly a kid-friendly environment." -Harper
"No argument. But neither is the real world. My journey to camp definitely proved that." -Katie pg. 29

"Okay. That was weird. Dagger acquired." Pg. 30

"Some crisp fall night, you might find yourself stumbling through the woods, wearing a burlap sack over your head." Pg. 1

"Fun fact, The Wild Zone is off-limits to demigods. A lot of campers don't even know it's exists." -Clarisse pg. 14

"It may be closer to the truth to say that Chamberlain will simply never again be." Pg.300

“Whatever any of us may think of the Carrie White affair, it is over. It’s time to turn to the future.” Pg. 279

“The mixture of image and emotion was staggering, indestructible. Blood. Sadness. Fear.” Pg. 287

“(She’s dying o my god I’m feeling her die)
And then the light was gone, and the last conscious thought had been
(Momma I’m sorry where)” pg. 289-90

"... Carrie's route-- a wandering, looping path of destruction through the town, but one with an almost certain destination: home..." Pg. 258

"I felt that the sin had been expiated. By blood. But sin never dies. Sin... never... dies." -Margaret pg. 260

"(CARRIE jesus not to kill her CARRIE didn't mean to kill her CARRIE billy i don't CARRIE want to CARRIE see it CA-)" Pg. 274

“Carrie did it. Carrie did it.” Pg. 241

“Who? How do you know?” -Sheriff Doyle
“I dunno. It just sort of… came to me.” -Tom Quillan pg. 246

“Her mind was filled with the huge knowledge of POWERS, and of an ABYSS.” PG. 249

“What happens if there are others like her? What happens to the world?” -Mrs. Cora Simard pg. 257

“(dead are they all dead Carrie why think Carrie) pg. 219

“What happened next?”
“Next? Why, next thing, the Devil came to Chamberlain…” -Thomas pg. 225

“ They are laughing and ready to throw things to point and scream with laughter I can't see them I can't see them it's all too bright.” pg. 228

“She was forgetting (!! THE POWER !!) It was time to teach them a lesson.” Pg. 231

"What did she want?" -Tommy
"I think she wanted to say she was sorry." -Carrie pg. 190

"...she was still uncomfortable about her own motives and afraid to examine them too deeply, lest she discover a jewel of selfishness glowing and winking at her from the black velvet of her subconscious." Pg.190

"Let's vote for ourselves. To the devil with false modesty." -Tommy pg. 194

“I told the truth— as much of it as I knew. But I am sorry for Carrie.” -Sue from My Name Is Susan Snell pg. 165

“The White Commission’s stand on the trigger of the whole affair— two buckets of pig blood on a beam over the stage—“ pg. 168-9

“Had not God Himself commanded Abraham to take his son Isaac up upon the mountain?” Pg. 184

“As Jezebel fell from the tower, let it be with you. And the dogs came and licked it up. It’s in the Bible! It’s—“ -Meredith pg. 149-50

“(then I’ll wreck the house) the thought came to her naturally and cleanly.” -Carrie thought Pg. 156

“…she could feel a large excitement blooming, like a rapacious and night-flowering vine, in her belly.” Pg. 164

“I’ve got that kind of feeling. A hunch. Someone’s going to come with rotten apples or something.” -Grayle pg. 126

“With the TK phenomenon, the male appears to be the carrier; the TK gene may be recessive in the female, but dominates only in the female.” From The Shadow Exploded Pg. 127

“But what can you say for Chris Hargensen herself?” -Sue from My Name Is Sue Snell Pg. 133

“Pig blood for pig.” Pg. 143

“You must be crazy.” -Tommy to Sue pg. 100

“They are surprised that he did it, though, which shows you that the male mind expects very little in the way of altruism from its fellow.” -Sue from My Name Is… pg. 104

“The ability, almost lost two weeks ago, was in full flower. It had progressed at a speed that was— Well, almost terrifying. And now, seemingly unbidden— like the knowledge of menstruation—.” Pg. 114

"I don't know exactly what I'm going to do yet, but I guarantee you everyone is going to get a big fucking surprise..." -Chris letter to Donna Kellogg pg. 96

"In the wake of two hundred deaths and the destruction of an entire town, it is so easy to forget one thing: We were kids. We were kids. We were kids trying to do our best..." -Sue from My Name Is Sue Snell pg. 100

"He said that it made no difference, but she thought that it did. It had begun to seem that it meant all the difference." Pg. 61

"And Eve was weak and loosed the raven on the world, and the raven was called Sin, and the first Sin was Intercourse. And the Lord visited Eve with a Curse, and the Curse was the Curse of Blood." -Margaret pg. 66

“The red-plaque circle was like blood itself— you could scrub and scrub and scrub and still it would be there, not erased, not clean.” Pg. 28

“That’s something else— she never hung any undies on the back line. Not even Carrie’s, and she was only three back then. Always in the house.” Pg. 36

“Neither shall the rock hide him ON THAT DAY!” -title blared pg. 48

"What none of them knew, of course, was that Carrie White was telekinetic." Pg. 4

"A tampon suddenly struck her in the chest and fell with a plop at her feet. A red flower stained the absorbent cotton and spread." Pg. 9

"They laughed at me. Threw things. They've always laughed." -Carrie pg. 21

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” Pg. 1

“Things have a life of their own. It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.” -Melquíades pg. 1-2

“This is the greatest invention of our time.” -Jose Arcadio Buendia pg. 18

"Do you think there are more animals?" -Alan Grant
"I can't say. Can you?" -Marty Gutierrez
"No. I can't say " -Grant
"But you suspect?" -Guitierrez
"Possibly there are. Yes." -Grant pg. 399

"Grant sat back in his seat. He thought of the dinosaurs standing on the beach, and he wondered where they would migrate if they could, and he realized he would never know, and he felt sad and relieved in the same moment." Pg. 397

"...until it seemed the entire island was glowing, a diminishing bright spot in the darkening night." Pg. 397

"...one by one, the animals moved back into the shade of the palm trees at the edge of the mangrove swamp, and there they stood, lined up in their peculiar fashion, watching the ocean. They stared fixed to the south." Pg. 393

"They want to migrate." -Alan Grant pg. 395

"Crippled animals." -John Hammond thought pg. 391

"Lying on his back on the hillside, he began to feel strangely relaxed, detached from himself. But he realized that nothing was wrong. No error had been made. Malcolm was quite incorrect in his analysis. Hammond lay very still as a child in its crib, and he felt wonderfully peaceful." Pg. 392