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It'll be dangerous," Nyssa warned him. "Hardship, monsters, terrible suffering. Possibly none of you will come back alive." "Oh." Suddenly Leo didn't look so excited. Then he remembered everyone was watching. "I mean... Oh, cool! Suffering? I love suffering! Let's do this.
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You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.
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Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I'd fallen for a girl named Zia Rashid, who'd turned out to be a shabti. Falling in love for the first time had been hard enough. But when the girl you like turns out to be ceramic and cracks to pieces before your eyes—well, it gives breaking your heart a new meaning.
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Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.
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As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe.
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Cabin Fifteen does that to everyone," Annabeth warned. "If you ask me, this place is even more dangerous than the Ares cabin. At least with Ares, you can learn where the land mines are." "Land mines?
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I prefer to be the noisiest thing in my environment thank you very much.
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Most helmsmen would've been satisfied with a pilot's wheel or a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from a Learjet, a dubstep soundboard, and motion-control sensors from a Nintendo Wii. He could turn the ship by pulling on the throttle, fire weapons by sampling an album, or raise sails by shaking his Wii controllers really fast. Even by demigod standards, Leo was seriously ADHD.
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I heard Amos yell, For Brooklyn! It was an odd battle cry.
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Lacy had warned me about Drew the first day of school. Apparently the two of them had gone to some summer camp together––blah, blah, I didn't really listen to the details––and Drew had been just as much a tyrant there.
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Stop!" he yelled at the others. "Multigrain fighting is not allowed!
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It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.
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You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.
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If anyone asks you if you're taken, I said, the answer is yes. I think I can live with that, he promised. Good, I said. Because you don't want to see me be cross. Too late. Shut up and dance, Walt. Shut up and dance, Walt. We did—with the music of a psychotic griffin screaming behind us, and the sirens and horns of Brooklyn wailing below. It was quite romantic.
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Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight.
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Zia turned toward us, her expression grim. I will show you to your quarters. In the morning, your testing begins. We will see what magic you know, and how you know it. I wasn't sure what she meant by that, but I exchanged an uneasy look with Sadie. Sounds fun, Sadie ventured. And it we fail this test? Zia regarded her coldly. This is not the sort of test you fail, Sadie Kane. You pass or you die.
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Amy gritted her teeth. "King Louis XVI even put Franklin's picture on a chamber pot!" Jonah looked at his dad. "Do we have souvenir chamber pots?" "No." His dad whipped out his phone. "I'll make the call.
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I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he'd sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back.
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Anubis frowned. He locked his very nice eyes with mine. You're not dead. No, I said. Though we're trying awfully hard.
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Thanks for not freaking out," I said. "Oh, I'm freaking out," Paul promised, his eyes wide. "I just think it's awesome!
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I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.
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I have lightning and wind powers," Jason reminded him. "Piper can turn beautiful and charm people into giving her BMWs. You're no more a freak than we are. And, hey, maybe you can fly, too. Like jump off a building and yell 'Flame on!'" Leo snorted. "If I did that, you would see a flaming kid falling to his death, and I would be yelling something a little stronger than 'Flame on!
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For what it's worth: trust your feelings. I can't promise that you'll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it.
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Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell they went reluctantly. I swear I understood their intencions. They were about to star rumors flighing around the sea about the son of poseidon and some girl at the bottom of Siren Bay.
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You spoke the truth, Percy Jackson. You are nothing like... like Hercules. I am honored that you carry this sword.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
June 5, 1964
(age 59)
Bio:
Richard Russell "Rick" Riordan, Jr. is an American author. He is known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, which is about a twelve-year-old boy who discovers he is a son of Poseidon.
Known for:
The Lightning Thief (2005)
The Lost Hero (2010)
The Blood of Olympus (2014)
The Last Olympian (2009)
The Hidden Oracle (2016)
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